Refactoring

Continuous Integration

A development practice where code changes are automatically built and tested when merged to a shared repository.

Continuous Deployment

An extension of continuous integration where code changes are automatically deployed to production after passing tests.

Continuous Delivery

A software practice where code changes can be released to production at any time through automated pipelines.

Version Control

A system that records changes to files over time so that specific versions can be recalled later.

Git

A distributed version control system for tracking changes in source code during software development.

Code Review

A systematic examination of source code by developers other than the author to identify bugs and improve quality.

Test-Driven Development

A development practice where failing tests are written before the code that makes them pass.

Behaviour-Driven Development

A development approach where application behaviour is described in a natural language format before implementation.

Feature Flag

A software development technique allowing features to be enabled or disabled at runtime without deploying new code.

Monorepo

A version control strategy where multiple projects or packages are stored in a single repository.

A communication protocol providing full-duplex communication channels over a single persistent TCP connection.

Five principles of object-oriented design promoting maintainable, flexible, and understandable code.

A visual workflow management method that limits work in progress and optimises the flow of tasks through a system.

A programming construct that waits for and dispatches events or messages in a program.

An HTTP callback that delivers real-time notifications from one application to another when a specified event occurs.

Testing the interaction between different software modules or components to verify they work together correctly.

A software design philosophy separating concerns into layers with dependencies pointing inward toward business rules.

The process of defining the structure, storage, and retrieval of data in a database system.