The Connection between DevOps and QA

This is an age of highest application performance, continuous availability, and stability. The turnaround in development and the time to market is getting shorter. The secret to success is DevOps and agile, and the new buzzwords. Testing teams are under increasing pressure to test applications quickly and thoroughly, as well as supporting a wide range of devices, operating systems, and browsers without sacrificing delivery quality and speed.

With the coming trends and technologies in the IT industry, the need to understand, manage, and adopt QA an activity effectively is continuously increasing. Agile, and most recently DevOps is changing the development of software and providing ways to enforce QA.

Implications of QA with the Dynamics of DevOps

DevOps encourages the collaborative culture to help increase communication and collaboration across the Development and Operations Team between the organizational silos to deploy code to production. This also relates to the QA organization and its counterparts in development. DevOps is all about helping to facilitate the exchange of information, expertise, and advanced skills in providing quality systems. In the DevOps era, QA teams will be more focused on preventing flaws instead of finding them.

Challenges Faced By the QA Team

• QA Culture
• Facilitation of quality
• Collaboration
• Preventive Approach

DevOps Testing Tools

• White Source Bolt
• Jenkins
• Gradle
• Nagios
• Vagrant

Conclusion

QA can play a critical role in speeding up development and release schedules in DevOps. DevOps helps to overcome some of the QA challenges and allows the QA team to take their outcomes to the next level. Testing in DevOps is a continuous process and promotes the process of integrating continuous feedback to enhance the output.