--- title: 6 Best Practices for Software Delivery | daily.dev description: The Testing Pyramid is a great starting point, and the Testing Pyramid to Fail Fast and Reduce Risk. The longer you leave feedback, the most costly it will... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/6-best-practices-for-software-delivery-dpzjdy9xa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 6 Best Practices for Software Delivery | daily.dev og:description: The Testing Pyramid is a great starting point, and the Testing Pyramid to Fail Fast and Reduce Risk. The longer you leave feedback, the most costly it will... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/6-best-practices-for-software-delivery-dpzjdy9xa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dPZjdY9Xa.png og:image:alt: 6 Best Practices for Software Delivery og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 6 Best Practices for Software Delivery **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 205 upvotes · 11 comments ## Summary The Testing Pyramid is a great starting point, and the Testing Pyramid to Fail Fast and Reduce Risk. The longer you leave feedback, the most costly it will become, you start having to interrupt people from other work, and after weeks/months pass by, it’s more likely that people and knowledge will leave. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@hvk500** · 3 upvotes > Good article. As an SRE myself, I found the fact the SRE was shoved in the section of dashboards and metrics in the first diagram rather an after thought 😂 Haha but okay. **@heyshubhi** · 1 upvotes > one of the best reads thanks for sharing!! **@ksharma20** · 1 upvotes > Now that's something, Developers should know before developing **@oleksadev** · 1 upvotes > Feedback loops - handy chapter **@raimx** · 1 upvotes > I see "Best Practices" I upvote! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#tdd](https://daily.dev/tags/tdd) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/6-best-practices-for-software-delivery-dpzjdy9xa) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"6 Best Practices for Software Delivery","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/6-best-practices-for-software-delivery-dpzjdy9xa","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/6-best-practices-for-software-delivery-dpzjdy9xa"},"datePublished":"2022-09-30T20:11:23.158Z","dateModified":"2022-09-30T20:11:23.157Z","description":"The Testing Pyramid is a great starting point, and the Testing Pyramid to Fail Fast and Reduce Risk. 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