Shift-Right

Methodology

// Definition

Validating quality in production — through monitoring, feature flags, canary releases, and chaos experiments — to catch issues that synthetic tests can't reproduce.

// Related terms

Shift-Left
Moving testing earlier in the development lifecycle — running tests at design and code-review time, not just before release. Goal: find defects when they're cheapest to fix.
Deploy
The act of releasing a built artifact to a target environment (staging, production). Modern teams aim to deploy as often and as automatically as possible.
Continuous Delivery
Automating the path from commit to a production-ready artifact. Every change is potentially deployable; the actual deploy may require a manual approval gate.