Continuous Testing in DevOps<\/strong><\/p>\nEvery one of us who understand DevOps is familiar with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. But the most important bridge that keeps\u00a0these two entities to work effectively and which makes the concept of DevOps successful is \u2018Continuous Testing\u2019. It is not just automation as most people think. Continuous Testing goes beyond automation and encompasses all practices \u2014 including tooling and cultural change. It is a mechanism of continuous validation that keeps the DevOps engine moving forward. It provides continuous feedback to the project teams to guide them towards successful software implementation.<\/p>\n
Continuous testing in the context of DevOps should take a test-first approach, which will help measure test coverage to check that software features work as expected. It will help in finding if changes would break the existing test suites. And also, help the project teams to focus on what they need to deliver.<\/p>\n
As part of continuous testing, test teams can also benefit with \u2018Exploratory Testing\u2019 by simultaneously understanding the system, designing the tests and executing the tests. This will add value to the test automation by actively exploring the\u00a0system without a script to learn how the system behaves in unanticipated ways.<\/p>\n
Continuous Test Improvements<\/strong><\/p>\nTest improvements\u00a0are\u00a0a critical\u00a0part of continuous testing. They drive the\u00a0continuous effort to optimize test performance of the software. This should and will provide improvements through automation and reuse of best practices. The continuous test improvement can set thresholds for each test phase that determine whether failures\u00a0are significant enough to revert the changes or it is necessary to stop the DevOps cycles long enough to fix the problems. Test first driven development, behavior-driven development concepts allow test processes to improve in a DevOps Model. Some of the key areas that can be addressed as part of continuous test improvements are code analysis and test optimization & virtualization.<\/p>\n
While test automation acts as a driver for detecting software defects, the concept of continuous testing highlights process improvements that can prevent future defects from occurring. \u00a0 Test improvements enhance\u00a0real-time assessments and continuous measurements to refine the development process so that business expectations are continuously met.<\/p>\n
Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\nContinuous testing is a great complement to the DevOps movement. Organizations cannot be successful with DevOps if they cannot improve the existing processes. They should know how and what to improve. Continuous testing which acts as an enabler to test improvements can be a good medium through which success is achieved. What is more important is that the ideas of test improvement should be embedded into the DevOps culture.\u00a0 As Moin discussed in his earlier post, quality is built into the entire system with DevOps. When implemented the right way, the concept of continuous testing in DevOps will be more than a method of enforcing test automation tools or best practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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