Definition of done
An unwritten contract signed by everyone in the organisation.
We use the definition of done to asses whether or not an enhancement can be considered to be complete (shippable to production).
Do not mix DoD with acceptance criteria.
DoD is our general framework to derive and end-to-end process which ensures every common piece of work meets the organisation's quality standards. Whereas, AC is a set of strictly defined targets for each individual (functional) piece of work that must be met before a task is considered to be complete.
Why is DoD important to us?
It is vital that every contributor in our organisation is aware of and understands our DoD. This helps us:
Complete all tasks without introducing any gaps in the process.
Follow with clarity where we are on our roadmap and what has been completed.
Know what is expected from every contributor.
Meet a certain quality of our work which leads to:
Lowering the amount of time spend for reworks.
Delivering on our promise to create a platform which makes a difference in our society.
Framework
The following is a general approach towards DoD, each team is encouraged to derive their own process suitable for the team's functionality in the organisation.
Development
Code and unit tests for functionality completed.
Assumption of meeting Acceptance Criteria.
Premerge [if applicable] tests and code reviews passed.
Postmerge [if applicable] tests passed.
Project builds with no failures.
Project deployed to dev environment.
Initial QA performed by the developer. [if this step fails, go back to step 1]
Feature documentation [if applicable] and tests documentation [if applicable] written.
Feature QA'ed by a QA engineer against the acceptance criteria. [if this step fails, go back to step 1]
Official documentation updated.
Feature marked as completed.
Release
All features included in the release are marked as completed. Where a feature is not yet completed, the feature is postponed for the next release.
Update changelog and release documentation where applicable.
Current environment is "green" - all unit, functional, integration, E2E and other possible tests are passing.
Release acceptance criteria is met. [If this step fails, go back to step 1]
QA functionality of the platform. [If this step fails, go back to step 1]
QA if any experimental features are exposed to the end user. [If this step fails, go back to step 1]
Promote the release to the next environment in the pipeline.
Release successfully deployed to new environment. [If this step fails, go back to step 1]
Release marked as completed.
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