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Implementing an On-Demand Feature Environment

Not long ago, developers at LeanTaas implemented an on-demand feature environment. It came about as the result of a collaborative effort to support a faster go-to-market strategy. Moving to an on-demand feature environment resulted in greater agility, effectiveness, quality and a better bottom line for the organization.

Now that the feature-specific instance is up and running in its own isolated environment and with its own dataset, it enables a fully functional playground for the QA team and PM team to extensively test new features in an isolated fashion.

Here’s how we solved for this: We use Slack, so we decided to send Slack notifications every time a feature environment was created and attach test results, as a thread, to the same Slack message.