DevOps is the bridge that makes the communication between the development and operation teams smoother. In today’s competitive environment in software development; unless you make the whole process quicker; all the teams need to work in sync.
Through DevOps practice, they can meet the evolving need of the customers with frequent as well as faster high-quality product delivery. Testing plays an important part in this whole process, especially for the practices like Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
The DevOps Testing Services is a continuous and automated procedure that allows faster and continuous delivery of the software. In the software development lifecycle, the testing integrates into every stage but the categories are different. In this environment; testing is no longer a unique responsibility of a particular team; rather every team must take an equal part in this operation.
What are the best practices for DevOps Testing:
In the traditional testing environment; the testing process happens at the final segment of the development process. On the contrary; the DevOps environment is adopting the Shift Left Testing Approach.
In this process, the Shift Left testing approach, the testing takes place in the earlier stage. The development and testing processes go simultaneously. It helps to find out the errors at the earlier stage of the lifecycle.
In the DevOps environment, the codes are frequently merged with the central repository by the developers. The code is continuously updated via Continuous Integration (CI). However, to prevent errors, you can continuously do code testing for different categories of tests that include unit tests, functional tests, acceptance tests, and integration tests.
To get faster feedback at the earlier stage of development; you have to follow best practices to automate all these tests. The success of the DevOps team depends on the percentage of automated test cases.
With the progress of the SDLC, the test automation will span different code levels like API testing, Performance Testing, Load testing, and Endurance Testing.
However, this does not mean that the whole testing process should be automated. Manual testing should be a part of the whole process as well.
Always use good quality test data that are recognized as a good candidate for test automation. To maximize the automation testing speed, you can run test cases in parallel. Updating the testing plan with the automated testing scope is the basic requirement.
