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DevOps Testing 101

A Complete Guide to DevOps Testing

Introduction

DevOps is often much more than just a mutual collaboration effort between the development and the operations teams working together. And it’s definitely much more than deploying industry standard methodologies, tools and practices. DevOps is a reformative mindset, a shift in the software work culture, where teams adopt highly progressive and adaptive ways of working together.

DevOps culture implies all developers to imbibe the user POV by gaining a better understanding of their requirements and needs. Operations teams involved in the development process , add-in the maintenance requirements and customer needs.Following the primary principles that help DevOps teams deliver applications and services much faster alongside a higher quality than most organizations still working in the traditional software development models.

Key DevOps Principles

To actualize the full potential of DevOps, teams should adhere completely to the key DevOps principles:
Collaboration

The core idea behind DevOps is collaboration. Development and operations teams coalesce together forming a functional team that inter-communicates, exchanges feedback, and collaborates throughout the complete development and deployment cycle. Often, development and operations teams merge into one team that works across the entire software/application lifecycle.

The members of a DevOps team are responsible for ensuring uncompromising quality deliverables across every aspect of the product. Leading to ‘full stack’ development, with teams owning complete backend-to-frontend responsibilities of a feature or product. Teams will focus on a feature or project throughout the complete lifecycle from ideation to delivery. This advanced level of investment and attachment from the team leads to a higher quality output.

Automation
The most essential practice of DevOps is to automate as much of the SLDC as possible. Giving developers enpugh time to code and develop new features. Automation is a primary key element of a CI/CD pipeline and helps to eliminate human errors and increase team productivity. With automation in place, teams achieve continuous improvement in short iteration times, which allows them to quickly respond to customer feedback.
CI/CD
Continuous improvement was established as a staple of agile practices, Including lean manufacturing and Improvement. It’s highly inclined towards experimentation, minimizing waste, and optimizing for speed, cost, and ease of delivery. Continuous improvement CI is also tied to continuous delivery CD, allowing DevOps teams to continuously push updates that improve the efficiency of software systems. The constant delivery of new releases means teams consistently push code changes that eliminate waste, improve development efficiency, and bring more value to the table.
User-centric action
DevOps teams use short feedback loops with end users to develop products and services centering around user needs. DevOps enables rapid collection and response via real-time live monitoring and rapid deployment. With an immediate visibility into how live users interact with a software system and use that insight to develop further improvements.
Always-on services

Customers expect and demand always-on, always available services. DevOps is well suited to supporting “always-on” software, or software as a service. It reinforces the cycle of continuous deployment, feedback, and maintenance or incident response that teams need to keep always-on services, always on.

DevOps is a cultural shift where teams embrace a software engineering culture, workflow, and toolset in sync with the requirements attuning its importance to the software architecture, design, and development.
Ensuring developers have a greater understanding of user requirements and needs. The core values of a DevOps culture include increased transparency, communication, and collaboration across teams.

There are three primary benefits for DevOps: technical benefits, cultural benefits, and business benefits. The technical benefits include lower complexity, continuous delivery, and speedy resolutions. DevOps engineers usually deploy higher-quality code that’s much faster than traditional siloed teams.

The added benefits are more productive and highly efficient teams, and happier customers. On the business end, the benefits include greater cooperation and trust building that fastens delivery ensuring stable operating environments.

Often the developers who wrote code worked separately from the operations team that supported the code inline of production. This resulted in inefficient processes and a lack of collaboration between these two highly siloed teams.
DevOps was the solution that bridges the gap between these teams so they work in tandem. DevOps brings the best of the both worlds including punching together the skills, processes, and tools together from both development and operations teams equally.

The significant turning point or the so-called cornerstone for continuous DevOps testing services is testing the software at every stage of its development life cycle. This significantly helps in evaluating the quality of the software in every possible step and makes way for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). Agile Methodology complements this as well, with Thought Frameworks approaching this ideation by following through the best business practices of integrating QA testing into the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery(CD) processes in the DevOps pipeline.

DevOps Testing Services The Thought Frameworks Way!
DevOps is a set of testing practices that includes software development and IT Operations with an aim to shorten the Software Development Life Cycle by providing continuous delivery of high-quality software.
Definition
DevOps teams use short feedback loops with end users to develop products and services centering around user needs. DevOps enables rapid collection and response via real-time live monitoring and rapid deployment. With an immediate visibility into how live users interact with a software system and use that insight to develop further improvements.
Significance

Importance of DevOps Continuous Testing Services
Continuous Testing in DevOps

The cornerstone for continuous DevOps testing services is testing the software at every stage of its development life cycle. This helps in evaluating the quality of the software in every step and makes way for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). Agile Methodology complements this, Thought Frameworks approaches and follows the best business practices by integrating testing into Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery(CD) in DevOps pipeline.

Continuous Testing in Agile DevOps PipelineContinuous Testing in Agile DevOps Pipeline.

Advantages
  • The After Effects of Continuous Testing in DevOps Services
  • Provides Sustained Risk Analysis
  • Cuts down the feedback cycle
  • Broader Test Coverage
  • Delivering High-Quality Product
  • Faster Software Delivery
  • Easy Integration with DevOps Process
  • Repercussion

What happens when you don’t do DevOps Continuous Testing

In the traditional software development prototype, the requirement occupies the X-axis of the plan and delivery occupies the Y-axis. This placement will have a negative impact in terms of cost, time, and errors. For instance, a defect that is discovered and corrected once the software has entered production will cost a fortune as compared to it being identified in the requirement phase.

Traditional Model

Methodology

DevOps Continuous Testing Services Bug Hunt Process
Microservices Architecture Testing:

The goal of the microservices architecture is to decentralize the development process by breaking down monolithic applications and releasing services separately and often.

The goal of the microservices architecture is to decentralize the development process by breaking down monolithic applications and releasing services separately and often.

All of these operations are included in Microservices Architecture Testing, but it requires a methodology to support it. DevOps being an exquisite fit for all the requirements that Microservices Architecture testing has to offer. It allows for experimentation and innovation where customer experience and delight are of prime importance.

Cloud Native Application Testing
A collection of small, independent and loosely coupled services are referred to as Cloud-native Application. The goal is to deliver business needs as per the end user’s expectation. Cloud Native Applications are built with a focus to achieve resiliency, agility and observability in mind. DevOps is a practice in which operations and development engineers collaborate throughout the lifespan of a project. DevOps processes entail continuous improvement, automation and involvement of cross-functional teams to align towards the business goals while being customer-centric.

Tools

Our selection of DevOps Testing Tools

A support system for Continuous testing is achieved via DevOps tools throughout the CI/CD process to achieve seamless customer experience.

1. Automation Testing Tools

  • Selenium
  • Cypress
  • Appium
  • WebDriverIO

2. Performance Testing Tools

  • Neoload
  • JMeter
  • LoadRunner
  • Gatling
  • JIRA
  • Jenkins
  • Bamboo
  • Docker
  • Appium
  • SoapUI
  • CodeCluster
  • PageDuty
  • Sonar for static code analysis
Our Methodology/Approach

A Typical DevOps Testing Service Environment
A continuous & automated Testing process enables continuous & faster delivery of software.

Testing Spans every stage of the Software Development lifecycle (SDLC).

Employing different forms of testing in SDLC minimizes backing tracking of an already detected error.

Testing has now evolved to Shared Testing – this allows everyone to understand the impact significance behind each change.

About Thought Frameworks

Thought Frameworks is a U.S. based leading QA and software testing organization that’s been in business since 2009, armed with the ultimate solutions for all your software’s QA testing challenges. Having headquarters both in California, USA, and a fully functional well equipped QA Test Lab in Bengaluru-India, that delivers premium QA and QC services endlessly across different Industry domains and niches. An ISTQB Silver Partnered Company, our superhuman test team heroes have delivered numerous successful QA and QC projects for clients across the globe. Get powered by our deep dive bug hunting process that helps your software in clocking release cycles on time while delivering excelling quality and functionality.

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