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Pedro Morais Mobile Developer [email protected] @pedromorais Shipping weekly releases

Weekly mobile app release cycles at Yammer

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Back in November Yammer started shipping our iOS and Android apps every week. Presented at Facebook's London Mobile Forum 2.0

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Pedro MoraisMobile [email protected]@pedromorais

Shipping weekly releases

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Why weekly releases?

Lots of small projectsLess schedule dependenciesFaster A/B test resultsVelocity!

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Why now?

iOS 7 auto updates… but reviews are still reset

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Impact on development

master must always be stableNo long-lived feature branchesFeature flagsIncreased automated testing

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Internal dogfooding

Successful CI builds deployedUsers prompted every 12 hoursUsers can force upgradeShake to reportSeparate crash queue

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Releasing the app

Short lived release branchesQA runs general regressionsProjects do own QAApple approval == cool down periodAndroid beta channel for a week

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