Smart Decoding – Delivering Quality and Speed with TrueCD

Serving nearly 80 million customers and nearly 6 million small businesses in the U.S., Chase’s ability to deliver quality customer experiences with our products and technology relies on stability, quality and speed. Our size and scale are assets to Chase employees and customers, but they can also present challenges.

Why it matters: Writing code is harder than it was 20 years ago since technology and capabilities have grown. Plus, dependencies on systems that were developed decades ago make launching code into production even more difficult. Our solution?

TrueCD, or True Continuous Delivery, is Chase’s practice of Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CICD). It is a set of automated practices for testing across applications with the goal of releasing code changes in less than one hour with confidence and quality.

Engineers adopting TrueCD accomplish this by automating:

1. Onboarding to Chase’s enterprise toolchain
2. Unit testing
3. Contract testing
4. Component testing
5. Acceptance testing
6. End-to-end testing
7. Performance testing
8. Security testing
9. Resiliency testing
10. Blue/green deployment
11. Production validation
12. Automated rollback

All sit within an approved toolchain to help with efficiency, compliance and required standards.

What success looks like: Increase in developer productivity. Now we can spend time tackling big problems and direct our brain power to innovative thinking instead of rote work that could have manual error due to our size and scale. Testing is critical for an amazing customer experience at launch. So, let’s set it and forget it.

How we’ll get there:

• Having development teams continue to adopt all 12 steps as they build code.
• Sharing our achievements to help win over team members since this requires a shift in how we build code and will take effort in the beginning—like our team that cut production time from six sprints to four by implementing the steps.
• Ensuring all new code and features use TrueCD’s practices.

Go deeper: Check out TrueCD at Chase Boosts Mobile Team Productivity to discover in-depth how Chase is using TrueCD to empower engineers, reduce toil and improve software quality, and learn more about how Chase technology teams are using Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CICD) across the organization, including for new mobile app releases and updates.

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