DevOps –It’s All About Continuous Testing and monitoring the feedback loop from dev to testing to production. Is has become aparent that the benefits of having a Continuous Testing cycle helps improvise the quality & TAT while your business solutions are in production.

Following are few points to consider to achieve seamless & stable continuous testing process.

• DevOps QA Is About Preventing Defects, Not Finding Them


• QA owns continuous improvement and quality tracking


• Tests are code


• Automation rules


• Testers are the quality advocates


• Mature automation testing framework


• Changed Role of QA in DevOps


• Traditional build which is deployed on their designated environment and QA would then commence their functional & regression testing.


• QA align their efforts in the DevOps cycle


• All their test cases are automated and achieve near 100% code coverage


• QA Environments are standardized and deployment on their QA boxes is automated


• All their pre-testing tasks, cleanups, post-testing tasks, etc. are automated and aligned with the Continuous Integration cycle.


• QA Engineers can configure their automation test cases into the DevOps chain


• Beyond Functional Testing: Automation for Load Testing, Stress Testing, and Performance Testing

Continuous testing and Job Automation

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery facilitate Continuous Testing


• Customized Test Suites and Test Pipeline with Promotion Gates


• Multiple Stacks, Multiple Suites, Test Data, Test Results Aggregation


• Integrated Diagnostics and simple auto-remediation


• All test data aggregated and reporting + trending enabled


• All the environments required for testing need to be standardized and deployments have to be automated


• Using various automation techniques, QA should be able to fire automation testing runs across various cross-platform (and cross-browser in case of web applications) environments.

Application Monitoring

• Setting up specialized counters like response times, memory & CPU utilization, etc. can provide a lot of insight into the end-user experience.


• End User Experience Monitoring


• Performance Testing and Diagnostics Framework