DevOps: Continuous Testing

DevOps demands a high level of coordination within various capacities of the deliverable chain. It also means that the boundaries between different roles of contributors in the chain become fluid. DevOps encourages everyone to contribute to the chain. So, amongst other things, a dev can configure deployments.

Challenges

In today’s digital age,  developers must move faster and smarter and are held back from continued maintenance and continued innovation. DevOps posts a challenge to the entire business in the way it thinks of building and launching a product. With amplified visibility of defects and their impact on our day-to-day lives, it has become evident that software testing plays a pivotal role.

Continuous Quality = CI+CD+CT

Webomates CQ makes adding system tests to the CI/CD tool chain effortless. The platform can be invoked via an API and the results are posted back into your CI/CD system.

CI + CD is the entire toolchain that you set up, using any well known DevOps tools like, Jenkins, Bamboo, CirlceCI or some other platform, and the effort that the development team takes to put the software into modules that can be built and deployed.

You still need validation that you can carry out as a part of the CI/CD toolchain. There are a couple of methods that can be used to create validation suites. These are unit tests and system tests. Developers typically create unit tests. System tests on the other hand are historically more difficult to integrate into a CI/CD chain. Webomates CQ provides the system tests you need to complete the CI/CD chain.

CT is an extension of the continuous delivery component. Continuous Testing leverages test automation, build, and release cycles. From a business perspective, CT shortens the iterations, minimizes quality risks, reduces costs, and accelerates time to market.