Thursday, August 30, 2018

Augmenting a DevOps Pipeline With Quality Engineering

In today’s hyper-competitive market, IT companies have the compulsion to innovate quickly and be first to market. The quality of the end result holds more significance and helps to grow the business. Quality Assurance (QA) mostly requires extensive work and makes it strenuous for the testers as they have to wait for the development phase to get over to actually test the product. The shift to Quality Engineering (QE) is needed as it helps in delivering quality products to the customers after being thoroughly tested, analyzed, and improved using shift-left testing. Shift-left testing refers to the integration of testing activities along with the development of the product rather than later, as in traditional software development environments like waterfall. QE does not stop with preventing defects by its efficient testing approach but also detects the minor errors in the application.

A Deep Dive Into DevOps

DevOps, a cultural approach to unify software development and software operations, was considered the only solution to cope up with the diverse environments such as advanced technologies, multiple databases, and various end-user devices. In spite of being a successful approach, it lacked the agility needed to run the deployment process, though the development phase embraces agile methodology. This eventually resulted in slowing down of delivery and delayed testing to the end of the process which made the developers take up the ownership of the defects and fix it near the end of the deployment.



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