Automation of the Software Production Line through Continuous code, Build, Deployment and Test Integration for RPAS Products

Abstract

In today's I.T. industry,mainly Retail Market, large number of retail products are developed every day to perform manual jobs such as billing,calculating stocks and ordering new ones. Once these products are developed and tested to a satisfactory level, tedious tasks of deploying this product on customers site comes into picture. Retail product companies has big customers like "Shoppers Stoppe" and "HyperCity". These retail products are to be deployed across all the branches of the customers site.These branches may be spread across the globe. As a result of which it is impossible for a human to sit and install these products on each machine customer needs. Also these products uses layered approach i.e. it needs various components like database, dashboards,workbooks etc.Thousands of code files working with each other in proper synchronization makes such products successful.As a result of which "Automation" comes into picture. An automation can create a installer for such huge products and install them parallely on thousands of hosts. The automated installer performs checks at various checkpoints to make sure that all other components required to proceed with installation are present and up on the hosts.If not,it also installs them and then proceeds. An automation script can also be helpful in various other tasks such as compiling large number of code files, or running quality checks against them.This will save a lot of time,money and effort required to perform those jobs manually.