2016: The Year of Artificial Intelligence - SD Times

In the software development industry, 2016 was truly transformative. The way software is developed, what it is being created for, and where it resides and is used all changed to a large degree last year. More development teams adopted agile and DevOps techniques, while QA "moved left" and integrated into the process, rather than being a post-development effort. The definition of the application life cycle changed (or expanded, depending on your point of view) to include deployment. Development shifted from doing nightly builds to Continuous Integration. Software release went from a major one-time event to Continuous Delivery.