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[[Governance]]
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The items below will make your Apache Hop project easier to manage, to monitor and to maintain.

* Version control your project folder.
* Reference cases (e.g. JIRA or GitHub issue tickets) in commits
* Make sure to have a backup and restore strategy, and test it.
* Run continuous integration
* Set up lifecycle environments (development, test, acceptance, production)
* Test your pipelines with xref:pipeline/pipeline-unit-testing.adoc[unit tests]. Run all your unit tests regularly, validate the results & take action if needed
