How continuous testing can impact the process of digital initiatives?


The implementation of digital initiatives has brought about positive changes for businesses. The changes range from simplifying procedures, quicker storage and retrieval of data, and a faster time to market for creating new revenue streams, better customer feedback mechanism, meeting compliance and addressing risks. The rapidly changing digital landscape means businesses have to quickly adapt to the latest technological developments. These developments relate to the areas of cloud, augmented reality, predictive analysis, artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, and IoT.
As digital initiatives bring a better value proposition for businesses and help in fine tuning the customer services, they have fuelled the customer appetite for better products/services as well. In order to reach faster to market and to ensure quality, development cum testing models have undergone changes. The changes have discarded the traditional waterfall model and have given way to Agile and DevOps.
In the DevOps model, continuous testing and delivery go hand in hand. The reasons pertain to their ability to quickly meet the rising consumer demand and address the quality issues. With continuous testing and integration being integral to DevOps, businesses can effectively deploy glitch free products and services. Moreover, they can carry out timely upgrade in line with customer feedback, changing technologies, or business objectives.
How can continuous testing services positively impact digital transformation?
The integration of QA services in the overall SDLC helps to quickly identify and eliminate glitches. It enables seamless integration of end to end product segments, thereby enhancing the user experience.
Check quality in real time: The widening scope of developing and deploying a software in real time implies that the code has to be tested on a continuous basis. The underlying objective is not to disrupt the customer experience. Any update to the software should, therefore, be done while it is in use. This makes the process complex and risk prone. To address such issues, continuous testing services should be made integral to the entire SDLC and beyond. It must be understood that along with developing new software products to edge out competition, ensuring the right customer experience is important as well.
Quick removal of glitches: The changing dynamics of customer behaviour imply that the software should be fine-tuned to suit the user requirements. This entails frequent changes in the codes across the SDLC. While this approach makes the software to incorporate the necessary changes, there is an increased risk of glitches too. A continuous testing framework validates the codes at every level, thereby ensuring their quality.
Constant monitoring of quality during test automation: The benefits of test automation in ensuring quality across the SDLC are well documented. However, the performance of the automated test scripts should be checked against a slew of test variables (real and virtualized) as well. As test scripts run across platforms, devices and networks, their quality needs to be top notch. And only continuous testing in a DevOps environment can ensure the quality and effectiveness of test scripts.
Increase the test coverage area: A continuous testing framework covers the entire SDLC and beyond through test automation. This leads to an increase in the test coverage area vis-a-vis a manual testing process. An enhanced testing area leads to the better identification of glitches.
Bring in more transparency: Continuous integration testing across the SDLC generates a slew of reports on the dashboard. The reports give a detailed result of the test right from the development to the deployment stage. These reports help the entire team of developers and testers to analyse the impact of test automation across platforms, devices and networks. The transparency of continuous testing in DevOps can enable teams to observe quality issues at first hand. Also, the reports showing the success or failure of tests can ensure better coordination between teams, functions and processes. The transparency can result in enhanced quality compliance across processes and sub processes.
Quicker testing process: As more test automation is implemented as a part of DevOps, it leads to a faster execution of test scripts. Thus, a quicker execution of test scripts leads to a better end to end integration and faster time to market.
Conclusion
The changing dynamics of user experience has triggered the concept of DevOps and testing on a continuous basis rather than a onetime activity. It helps a product or service to consistently meet the quality parameters and cut down on turnaround time.

This article is originally published at Medium.com, Top reasons to consider Continuous Testing for your Digital initiatives.
 

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