Automation is for the Lazies!
In my overview of build automation benefits I already stated that it leads to “Less job burnout due to routine tasks”. That’s another way to say – automation is good for us lazy folks! 🙂 Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m lazy. Especially when it comes to long repetitive tasks with a lot of small steps that are easy to forget. Like closing a release baseline or cleaning my apartment. Alas, we can’t automate the apartment cleaning (as yet), but we can, and should be lazy about SDLC tasks. So how do you go about this? Well, first of all – get out these annoying checklists with all the steps needed to close that baseline, prepare that installation kit, merge that branch into the main stream, etc. Don’t have the checklists? It’s all in your head?! Well, you’ll have to write it down now – this will be…