Lesson 4: Testing, Packaging, Versioning, AppInspect Awareness, Deployment, and Developer Review

Lesson Overview

This lesson develops practical capability in testing, packaging, versioning, appinspect awareness, deployment, and developer review for the Splunk Certified Developer Training. Learners connect the topic to the wider course goal of building Splunk apps, dashboards, custom experiences, REST integrations, and deployable packages.

Topics Covered

Testing, Packaging, Versioning, AppInspect Awareness, Deployment, and Developer Review: purpose, terminology, architecture, roles, and expected business or operational outcomes
Core Splunk data, searches, configuration, objects, integrations, interfaces, and security controls relevant to the topic
Design decisions, dependencies, risks, permissions, performance considerations, and governance requirements
Guided practice focused on performance, release, documentation, governance, maintenance, and operational handover
Testing, validation, diagnostics, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational support

Practical Activity

Prepare a controlled operational checklist covering testing, release, monitoring, security, support, and continuous improvement.
Capture assumptions, configuration choices, expected results, test evidence, and remediation notes in a reusable worksheet.
Review the completed exercise against security, data quality, performance, maintainability, and support-readiness criteria.

Key Takeaways

Explain the purpose and architecture of testing, packaging, versioning, appinspect awareness, deployment, and developer review.
Apply the principal Splunk features and workflows required for the lesson scenario.
Validate results, identify common failure points, document decisions, and support a controlled operational outcome.

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Splunk Certified Developer Training 1 Section4 Lessons16 Hours

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