In today’s world, web development agencies and internal development teams must incorporate accessibility and SEO testing and best practices into their workflows as a regular part of the development process.
At first glance, deploy previews or git pull request environments sound like technical tools that only benefit development and engineering teams. In reality, though, these tools are fantastic for UI and UX designers. They enable tighter collaboration with engineering, earlier and easier usability testing, and a great way to share work with stakeholders. Find out why deploy previews should be a tool in every design team’s toolbox.
Git pull request builders provide valuable benefits across broad swaths of web development organizations. One way to explore the benefits that these deploy preview tools provide is by looking at how they enable different roles within a software development organization to get work done faster and better, and collaborate more effectively. In today’s article, we’ll look at how deploy previews improve the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for project and product managers.
In our ongoing series about the benefits of git pull request builders, we’ve been looking at the different ways these tools benefit different roles across an organization. Today, we’re looking at the benefits that deploy previews provide for QA teams.
A git pull request builder creates a working version of a website or web app for every pull request. Whether you call these tools deploy previews, on-demand staging environments, or Review Apps, this functionality can dramatically improve the software development process. Deploy previews provide myriad benefits for different roles. Today, we’re looking at the benefits that git pull request builders provide for back-end developers.
Tugboat (and many deploy preview tools) works by asking users to commit a config.yml file to a specific directory in the linked git repository. While this provides a quick way to get up and running with building on-demand environments, there are cases when this process represents a constraint for organizations. To facilitate integration with a popular open-source CMS framework’s issue queue, we’ve added a new feature to Tugboat’s API: the ability to accept a config.yml as a parameter, instead of requiring it to be committed to the linked git repository. This new feature opens the door for a lot of interesting build possibilities!
Git pull request builders; sometimes called things like Deploy Previews, front-end staging environments, or Review Apps; build working versions of websites or web apps for every pull request. This functionality provides benefits to many different roles across a software development organization. Today, we’ll look at why front-end developers should use one of these deploy preview tools.
As a git pull request builder focused on the “build” part, Tugboat has added new service commands to support more flexible Preview builds! These additional commands provide support for post-build processes, and offer new possibilities for third-party integrations.