Need For Continuous Testing In Agile

In the new world of digital, smart and DevOps, the traditional approach to software distribution is no longer applicable. Development and testing teams are under tremendous pressure to deliver speed and quality products.

In Agile, where we often release software to production, we have to ensure that the software in high growth is of high quality. We need early testing and we have to test often. We need to make sure that we start with the right requirements and to make sure we test during development and do not leave the test before release.

Continuous testing plays an important role in continuous distribution. It uses tight development methods and concepts for testing and QA process, which offers more efficient testing procedures. Continuous testing requires an automated end-to-end test solution which integrates current development processes while eliminating errors and enabling continuity in SDLC.

Since DevOps encourages high-level coordination between the various teams in the development value chain, sometimes it eliminates the boundaries of different roles.This requires everyone to contribute to the value chain as and when needed. Therefore, a developer can configure deployment, QA engineers can configure automation cases, and deployment engineers can add test cases in the QA repository. Together, they are responsible for all the quality and must adhere to the timeline of all deliverables.

The following initiatives are part of continuous testing with the various functions of software development:

- Development teams should start continuous testing with the test cases and performance of the code developed by them. They can use open-source equipment such as selenium for testing. To ensure a comprehensive test coverage of the test, functional, performance, UI, API and more regression tests may be included. However, testing should be easy so developers can create and execute themselves.

- DevOps teams have to configure a continuous integration environment so that proper testing can be used. In case of build failures, an automated message is received. They need to end the continuous integration process as soon as possible.

- QA testers need to ensure that the process continues to run so that tests can run in parallel.

- Each release is required to pass an acceptance test on the deployment operated by the operations team.

Continuous testing, when deftly applied, allows flawless continuity in the distribution cycle. Integrating fully automated a continuous testing process in SDLC is the most effective solution for a successful continuous delivery process.