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Achieve faster time to market with unified source code management (SCM) and automated DevOps

One of Virtusa’s financial sector clients faced inefficiencies, delays, and rising costs due to limited automation in their software delivery lifecycle. Their manual continuous integration (CI) and delivery pipelines hindered build speeds, while poor collaboration between development and QA teams created silos, impacting quality and agility. In response, Virtusa launched a comprehensive consulting engagement to evaluate the situation, identify key challenges, and design a customized solution tailored to the client’s scale and maturity. We seamlessly integrated new processes and tools by leveraging global expertise and best practices, empowering sustainable, long-term transformation.

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The Challenge

The client faced the following challenges, leading to inefficiencies and increased complexity in their development lifecycle:

  • Fragmented SCM tools: The client relied on multiple source code management (SCM) tools without a unified branching and merging strategy, leading to inefficiencies and increased complexity. This necessitated the migration to a single, streamlined SCM tool.
  • Lack of code analysis in CI: The client faced challenges due to the absence of a code analysis tool integrated into the continuous integration (CI) process, limiting the ability to detect code quality issues early in the development cycle.
  • Manual build process: Builds were initiated manually instead of being automated, resulting in delays and increasing the potential for errors during the development lifecycle.
  • No build dependencies/artifact management: The lack of a standard tool for managing build dependencies and artifacts hindered the client’s ability to effectively implement continuous deployment (CD), creating gaps in the development pipeline.
  • No tagging/labeling of builds: The absence of a robust tagging and labeling system for builds, as per best practices in SCM and release management (RM), made it difficult for the client to track and manage code versions efficiently.
The Solution

Given the challenges, there was a need to enhance the software development lifecycle with streamlined processes and tools. The solution included:  

  • Unified SCM tool: All version control systems were merged into a single SCM tool, promoting its adoption by assigning dedicated build and release engineers who provided support during the transition.
  • Code analysis tool implementation: A thorough evaluation and selection process was carried out to integrate a suitable code analysis tool into the CI pipeline, enabling early detection of code quality issues.
  • Automated DevOps hand-offs: The hand-off process between development, operations, and enablement teams was streamlined by automating the key stages of continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), continuous testing (CT), and configuration management (CM).
  • Agile practices and automated testing: Agile development methodologies and tools were introduced, along with streamlined environment and release management processes, incorporating automated testing to enhance productivity and minimize manual interventions.
  • Bootstrap best practices: The best practices were established across development, testing, and release management to ensure consistent, high-quality results at each stage of the software development lifecycle.
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The Benefit

Through our tailored approach to automation and continuous integration, the client experienced the following significant benefits:

  • 60% reduction in cycle time: By streamlining development and deployment, we cut cycle times by 60%, ensuring the client’s products reach the market faster, giving them a competitive edge.
  • 15% reduction in bugs per release: Through early code analysis and automated testing, we’ve enhanced code quality, resulting in a 15% reduction in bugs per release, delivering more reliable software to our client.
  • Faster deployment and testing: Our accelerated deployment and integration testing allows defect fixes to be tested during build time, ensuring faster resolution and fewer delays in our client’s software updates.
  • 30% decrease in build and release management effort: Automation reduces the manual effort required for build and release management by 30%, allowing teams to focus on higher-value tasks and increasing overall efficiency.
  • Increased release velocity: With improved release control, we’ve boosted release velocity by 1.3x, allowing the client to deliver software updates and new features more frequently and faster, keeping them ahead of the market.
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