Many global software development organisations have chosen Java, because of its platform independence and flexibility. It has allowed development teams to be agile, and responsive in processing requests for new features and software changes, and has thereby helped to reduce development times. The new bottleneck for application developers is now in the downstream activities of build, test and deployment. Few organisations are Java-only, and the added challenge of integrating heterogeneous development environments such as C, C++, C#, alongside Java is putting an added strain on engineering teams.

This presentation covers the tools and best practices that have emerged to assist developers in the areas of Continuous Integration, Agile Software Production, Integration of manual and automated testing, and deployment options. The options discussed and presented range from Open Source, to commercial enterprise solutions, and the relative merits of each are contrasted.