Live Training · Pipelines

Stop release nightmares

Make every release predictable — with a deployment pipeline that tests the exact build you ship, at every stage, before it reaches production.

Releases shouldn't be stressful. But production fails in ways nobody saw coming, the team scrambles to firefight at the last minute, and testing was never quite finished before deploy. A green build feels like safety — until it isn't, because the build passing and the system working aren't the same thing.

What you'll learn

  • Pipeline architecture — the Commit, Acceptance, and Release stages, and why testing the identical build across environments is what makes a release predictable instead of a gamble.
  • Testing strategy — where each kind of test belongs (unit, integration, component, contract, smoke, acceptance, and end-to-end), and how AI and a test-driven approach fit into the pipeline.
  • A way to bring it home — how to present the architecture and win buy-in, so the team moves off reactive, last-minute firefighting and onto a pipeline they trust.

What we cover

Overview

  • Why we need pipelines?
  • Overview of pipeline architecture

Pipeline Architecture

  • Commit stage
  • Acceptance stage
  • Release stage

Development Lifecycle

  • ATDD with the pipeline
  • TDD with the pipeline
  • How AI fits in?

Automated Testing in the Pipeline

  • Commit stage testing (unit, integration, component, contract)
  • Acceptance stage testing (smoke, acceptance, contract, E2E)

Adopt Pipelines with your team

  • Team alignment
  • Minimal pipeline setup
  • Pipeline architecture for ATDD
  • Pipeline architecture for TDD

How the session runs

We work through a realistic e-commerce project, building out the pipeline stage by stage so you see how the pieces fit together in practice.

  • Tools: Java, TypeScript, and GitHub Actions in the examples — but the architecture is stack-agnostic and the concepts carry across any tools you use.
  • Format: live over two 3-hour sessions, hands-on, run in focused ~50-minute blocks with 10-minute breaks — with the full recording included so you can revisit any part.

Who it's for

  • Senior engineers and tech leads living through stressful releases — production incidents, last-minute scrambles, and testing that never quite finishes before deploy.
  • Anyone who wants releases to be a non-event, backed by a pipeline that proves the shipping build works before it goes out.
Valentina Jemuović

Valentina Jemuović

Technical Coach & Founder of Optivem

Valentina has spent years helping engineering teams modernize legacy systems — without the years of expensive trial and error. She's the creator of the ATDD Accelerator, putting agentic AI to work inside the loop to ship changes to legacy code more safely and faster.