Git branching strategy integated with testing/QA process

Question

Our development team has been using the GitFlow branching strategy and it has been great !

Recently we recruited a couple testers to improve our software quality. Th

Answer 1

The best approach is continuous integration, where the general idea is to merge the feature branches into the developer branch as frequently as possible. This reduces on the overhead of merging pains.

Rely on automated tests as much as possible, and have builds automatically kick off with unit tests by Jenkins. Have the developers do all the work with merging their changes into the main branch and provide unit tests for all their code.

The testers/QA can take participate in code reviews, check off on unit tests and write automated integration tests to be added to the regression suite as features are completed.

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