How devops will impact on QA testing?

Nowadays most of the companies move towards devops so in future devops is a buzzing environment where market is rapidly growing

So here we discussed how this new software methodology will reflect on QA and how QAs are ready to accept this environment

So now, we learn how devops effect on QA and its functions:

First, we learn,

What is devops?

Devops: Development and operations, it is a software development process that is for continuous integration and looks at all the integration of software development life cycle.

Devop life cycle would start from:

1. Backend team and frontend team which involved in the development of code.

2. Building and deploy in the QA environment

3. Execute and verifying test cases and finalize the build for production deployment.

4. Deploy build on production environment with smooth integration.

Now discussion on “Why devops?” need for the CI:

There is a minor difference between agile and devops testing. The purpose of devops to fill the gap while agile principles are applied  for the development process and QA process. Agile methodology related to CI and CD.

Now devops slowly move instead of continuous integration to continuous development, where code are committed to version control which will be built, tested and deployed on the production and ready to use by the end user.

Change role of QA in devops:

In software testing or QA, QA would get the which is deployed on the classify environment and QA would begin the functional and regression testing on that environment. QA verify the build and do sign-off mail. Now slowly all these thing is changing in devops.

QA changes for Devops testing:

• In devops lifecycle, Alignment of QA is required.

• QA make sure performed all test cases and coverage of 100% code throughout the application.

• Now they need assurance of Environments are standardized and deployment of build on QA boxed are automated.

• All testing like pre testing, post testing, cleanup etc all these are automated and associate with CI(Continuous Integration).

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Devops are highly required for coordination between the deliverable chain. Devops provide  a chain in which create a boundary between various role of contributors and become “layers of porous limestones”.

Devops motivate everyone to give effort in the chain. So, backend team and frontend team configure development. Deployment engineers automate all test cases to QA repo. And QA engineers configure their automated test cases to devops chain.

Devops and Test automation

For the speed of agile, it is very important to automate all test cases and run automatically when build deployment is completed in the QA environment. A mature automation testing framework is need through we can easily script for new test cases for new functionality.

Application Monitoring

QA should be able to monitor the application proactively. For achieving this we need to set up a monitoring on the production which would be able to expose the bugs before they cause failure.

Set up a specialized monitoring tool that counters like response times, memory & CPU utilization, etc and also  can provide a lot of insight into the end-user experience.

For example, if the average response time for loading the page is gradually increasing over the various builds, QA should proactively report this issue for optimizing the page code, else future builds might cause end-user frustration due to high response times and bad performance.

QA execute a small priority test here so they can verify the data.

Again, these monitors need to be configured to run automatically with rich reporting (like logs & screenshots of failures, etc.).

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