9 Ways Cloud Assists Agile Software Development
5. Continuous Integration and Delivery
Since agile development is an iterative process, the developers might need to fix the errors during tests and they might have to do it a number of times until the test finally passes without having any errors. Having a cloud makes several servers available to the team that renders them numerous virtual machines that can speed up the continuous integration capability of the team.
6. Availability of More Development Platforms and External Devices
The agile teams require a number of project management, issue management and automated testing environments for their functioning. Cloud offers all these features as Software as a Service (SaaS) such as Salesforce.com etc. The teams can use virtualization and cloud as the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) such as Amazon Web Services, GoGrid etc. They can also use Platform as a Service (PaaS) such as Oracle Database Cloud Service, Google App Engine etc.
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