Quality

Posted  December 12, 2017  by  Scott Fitzpatrick  in  Software Development & Testing These days the speed of software delivery is of the utmost importance in most development shops. However, these same development shops are unwilling, as they should be, to sacrifice quality in the process. This forces the DevOps team to ask the following question: How can we thoroughly test the product we are building without slowing the pace of software delivery? The goal of maintaining a fast-paced development cycle while still having confidence that your testing procedures will ensure the creation of a quality product can be achieved by using proven testing strategies that are popular in many DevOps organizations today. Below, I describe and review a few tactics that are helpful for achieving software quality without slowing software delivery. These tactics include such practices as parallel testing, shift-left testing and automated testing. PARALLEL TESTI...

Posted  December 6, 2017  by  Mike Mackrory  in  Automation Best Practices Software Development & Testing If you found this article, you’ve probably already been sold on the benefits of automated testing. Automated testing is something that can offer virtually every organization tremendous benefits. However, it requires an upfront investment to implement it correctly. Like most other things in life that are worth doing, automated testing requires some setup to do it the right way. In particular, the creation of a high-quality automated testing program requires: Acquisition of and training for automated testing tools Time for engineers to develop automated tests Infrastructure to support the automated testing tools and testing itself Convincing management that this investment is worth it may seem like a difficult proposition. After all, management folks are usually leery of anything that adds to the budget, especially when the investment ...

By  Leah Alger  -   Nov 27, 2017 9356 SHARE Facebook   Twitter     in Share Digital transformation has changed the face of all of the industry. The software delivery model has undergone a drastic change with DevOps, agile and continuous delivery, leading these changes. Several businesses are successful in implementing agile processes to improve software delivery. But as the lines between development and operations are blurring, sprints are getting shorter, the difficulty mounts in meeting the higher expectations both for speed and quality of software deliverables. An important and often missing link in the DevOps loop is testing. DevOps, in reality, is DevTestOps and for various teams and delivery models to be agile, test management is the vital link. Organisations need TestOps to match the pace of DevOps and by testing early and often, they gain the incremental quality benefits that bring true value to the ...