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Jump starting DevOps with Continuous Testing

DevOps is a culture to expedite software development life cycle through automate manual tasks and eliminate non-value add activities. DevOps means an integrated view of automation across the software, operations, quality, and processes. It helps to reduce costs, time and deliver of end-to-end IT agility. The main goal of QA in DevOps is software quality by testing often and releasing often in the Agile world.

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DevOps has emerged for the following reasons:

The existence of traditionally siloed team structures that did not scale to meet the varied needs of modern enterprises.
The philosophical disconnect between development, testing and operations teams, which resulted in poor communication, collaboration and integration.
The accelerating progression of digital technologies, which has evolved faster than the underlying processes used to deploy, extend and manage them.

From our perspective, four key activities define DevOps.

Continuous Everything As Continuous Development

DevOps at a Glance

Collaborative Development

Increased Collaboration between teams

Continuous Integration & Continuous Testing

Integration of software testing with deployment and operation

Continuous Release and Deployment

Increased delivery speed and frequency

Continuous Monitoring

Improved quality by monitoring production performance

Devops Solution Architecture

In our view, continuous testing (CT) is the first step in the right direction when embarking on a DevOps journey. CT is a metaphor for a continuous feedback mechanism that drives software delivery through the SDLC tunnel. Automated feedback at each checkpoint is an auto-trigger for the next process in the delivery chain if the feedback is to move forward, or green. If the feedback is do not move forward, the process immediately is stopped, and corrective measures are taken.

DevOps Features

Build Automation

Build were automated by using the Poll SCM feature of Jenkins, This not only enabled faster builds but also help to eliminate manual build effort.

Code Stability

Notification feature enabled development team to respond quickly to the build failure scenarios. This helped in quicker resolution of code issues and ultimately lead to stable code base

Analytics

Provided centralized view of code quality issues and dashboards created leveraging Jenkins APIs, provided complete build information. This enabled project teams to take timely corrective steps.

CD Enablement

Workflow configuration on Jenkins enabled auto deployment of application artifacts (EAR/WAR files) on the required application server whenever a new snapshot version of the artifact was available.

Faster Releases

CI enabled faster release cycles with stable code.

Cost Savings

Many projects cut down on the cost to maintain separate build teams after build automation. This resulted into significant cost savings for them.

Improved Productivity

CI-enablement helped increase development team productivity by relieving them from build related aspects with completed focus on their core development activities.

Improved Code Quality