Using Content Driven Development

Content-driven development for AEM Edge Delivery centers author needs by requiring explicit test content during content modeling, block implementation, and validation, ensuring test content drives coding decisions before PR submission.

Content-driven development is a process that prevents developer-first changes in AEM by ensuring authors' content models drive code and decoration logic through test content creation and CMS validation before code changes are accepted.

To validate AEM block changes against real CMS content before a pull request, you apply a deterministic workflow that coordinates content modeling and testing phases to check changes against explicit test content representing realistic CMS examples.

Yes, explicit test content is required to start building blocks in AEM Edge Delivery, as the content-first workflow mandates test content creation during Phase 1 Content Discovery to drive coding decisions and validate block implementation.

The best way to coordinate content modeling and block testing in AEM workflows is to orchestrate content-modeling, building-blocks, and testing-blocks patterns together, ensuring real CMS content validates block changes before PR.