DevOps is an extension of an agile software development strategy that enables software development and testing to be carried out simultaneously with an endless collaboration of all parties involved. Businesses are rapidly deploying DevOps to shorten time to market, respond better, and meet customer needs. DevOps results from the company's need to react quickly to market changes, gain competitive advantages and quickly expand its business.
DevOps cases not only improve the regularity of feature releases, they also play an important role in reducing errors. DevOps security is not supported as fully as DevOps. The initiation of security checks at an early stage of the development process requires adequate protection. Many organizations agree that it is important to introduce security early. But few people do that. Despite the risk of early security threats disappearing or even later, which protects the application development process and prevents rework, many business organizations incorporate security later in the development cycle.
The cultural shift in DevOps
DevOps is used to manage software settings. Cultural change is often required between the different stakeholders in an organization and they must work towards a common goal of achieving a fast, stable and repeatable process. DevOps strengthens the development and operations teams into a team that focuses on delivering business value across the entire IT value chain.In addition to the two roles of the development and operations teams at DevOps, quality assurance (QA) plays an important role in increasing the company's value. DevOps combines all three functions into one value-adding unit. In addition, the organizational basis is divided into development and operations teams. Quality assurance focuses on the responsibilities of every employee in the organization. Quality assurance and testing form the bridge between the development and operation of DevOps by customers and companies. Quality assurance and testing are a means of reducing the time to market for products in the DevOps program. However, developers and testers ultimately play an important role in the DevOps approach.
The role of quality assurance in the current software development process continues to develop. Customer-oriented. When deploying applications, their requirements are taken into account. At any point in the application lifecycle, the release of the latest features can lead to disaster if quality cannot be guaranteed. Test automation plays an important role in ensuring quality and speed.
Using best practices to develop a QA strategy is critical to moving an organization to the DevOps movement. It is also helpful to provide active software development and operations to provide a user experience. Adopt and implement DevOps cases to improve release regularity and reduce errors.
Three ways of quality-driven development
In conventional scenarios, quality checks try to find errors. However, quality assurance goes far beyond that in DevOps scenarios. The responsibility of the QA department has matured to avoid mistakes right from the start. This can support settings that require new versions to be released in minutes or hours. Therefore you should not carry out manual tests here.More and more companies are using DevOps. Mainly because it offers endless delivery and delivery benefits. This ushers in an era of faster deployment and testing to meet market and customer needs. This increases the need for a continuous quality check. Perfect quality is based on the core philosophy of the DevOps approach. Don't look at them separately.
Here are three examples that testers can use to switch methods. Promote quality-oriented innovations in a secure DevOps world.
# 1 Test Strategy Revealed
If these features add value to the end user, you can have a quality product. The product owner understands what the customer is saying and turns these ideas into small, independent, testable user cases. You can also get help from quality assurance experts, whose common goal is to develop high value in each feature.According to ATDD, acceptance criteria must be developed within the scope of the team's activities so that testers can add new perspectives. Increasing acceptance of key conditions will help developers build the right product the first time they try. Although we focus on test-driven development, sharing testing strategies with developers before coding can be a huge success. Vulnerabilities in coding can lead to cyber attacks, so developers need to pay attention to secure coding and fully understand.
Discuss the planned test strategy with the developer within minutes before or after the sprint plan and provide a checklist that you can access while coding. This exercise is like a teacher, providing students with test answers. It also helps developers to guess work perfectly and complete stories within test time.
# 2 Define quality in completion
The exact execution of completion meaning depends on the agility maturity of the organization. DoD is defined as quality control. While the list is intact, testers will promote continuous improvement by the Department of Defense.There will be problems. Especially in the case of developing DoD without checking feasibility. For example, in some cases, you have a management strategy, such as 100% code coverage for all use cases. However, at the time the decree was issued, the unit testing framework was not integrated into the development process. The story is actually stuck. Eventually, people started to ignore the DoD stage.
Take advantage of these opportunities to develop and promote priorities regarding technical debt, making it easier for the team to have DoD control. However, if there is a balance of technical debt, organizations should launch DoD on the smallest possible basis, rather than building a complete control list that cannot be achieved in a Sprint. For experienced teams that meet DoD standards, you need to add DevOps security definitions to the DoD list at a achievable rate.
#3 Measurement
Most companies expect product delivery issues to be related to technical expertise and lack of resources. However, experience shows that the main reason for the low return on technology investment is the inability to manage business change from a strategic and organizational perspective.Metrics are the basis for continuous improvement of the DevOps case. It enables you to understand team performance, including obstacles, inefficiencies, and success. Testers play an important role in collecting and advocating the collection of some key indicators. Indicators that increase value and indicate the company's DevOps efforts. But value depends on the goals, products and people of the organization.
Important key metrics to collect
Some basic parameters that testers need to receive are: However, the effort to track these operations depends on the organization's infrastructure and collection system. If you're not sure what to do, don't worry. Join your team and select the list of entry tests. The main indicators are:- Team satisfaction
- Direct user feedback
- Transportation costs
- Number of customers reporting defects
- Failures reported automatically
- Code coverage
- Issuance and delivery rate
