The intense competition amongst software companies
or more specifically software testing companies to test and release high
quality products quickly (daily, hourly or even within minutes) to catch the
attention of the elusive customers has introduced the concept of Agile. DevOps
or the integration of IT and Operations wings of an organisation is the logical
conclusion of the Agile way of developing a software with built-in software
application testing mechanism.
DevOps has brought about the concept of continuous
development, integration and deployment. So, can software testing or
quality assurance carried out by the software testing companies be left
behind? The answer is an emphatic NO. It is for ensuring the quick release of
‘high quality’ products with automation in the hands of customers. Moreover, the
integration of software testing or quality assurance by the software
testing companies into the entire DevOps ecosystem is simply a foregone
conclusion.
Why Test Automation is
important in DevOps?
The objective is to release high quality
applications quickly into the market, followed by enhancing the product even
further based on customer feedback. Software testing companies need to
incorporate automation, as manual testing will be simply inadequate to meet the
challenge. Thus, automation of software testing holds the key in a DevOpsenvironment to ensure everything works in clockwise precision.
The top five reasons why software testing
will continue to stay relevant in a DevOps era are as follows.
Changing market dynamics: The market is flooded with new
applications in every possible domain. To stay ahead in the competition,
companies need to ensure quality and tailor their products and services to meet
the changing market dynamics on a real time basis. For example, if a software
product already in use by the customers needs a bug to be fixed or an update to
be carried out, doing the same manually is next to impossible. This is where
the integration of software application testing automation on a real
time basis is needed. DevOps becomes important in such scenarios, where
Continuous Testing and Continuous Deployment is done.
QA the facilitator: In the DevOps scenario where
the primary objective is to achieve quality and speed, quality assurance should
be taken as a responsibility by both the development and operations teams. If software
application testing is not made a part of continuous integration and
deployment, the twin paradigms of DevOps, then the whole purpose of
implementing DevOps fails. Hence, software testing companies can breathe
easy, for the advent of DevOps will make them even more relevant than ever.
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