DevOps and CI/CD

Continuous Integration

• Every pull request triggers a test + build pipeline via GitHub Actions or GitLab CI

Automated Testing

• Unit, integration, and smoke testing on all services

• Coverage reports and mutation testing

Deployment Pipelines

• Staging and production pipelines with manual approval gates

• Container image builds and registry push to Docker Hub or GitHub Packages

Quality Assurance

• Pre-deploy QA testing with scenario simulations

• Regression testing suite for major releases

Release Management

• Semantic versioning (SemVer)

• Release notes automatically generated

• Hotfix and patching workflows included