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The key role of humans in the success of automation driven DevOps testing

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Devops Testing To ensure the quality of software across all digital touchpoints, enterprises are embracing DevOps that is underpinned on automation. In fact, automation has become the crux of continuous integration and delivery, the vital Devops testing goals. Without the implementation of automation, DevOps would become a distant dream and businesses would struggle to keep pace with seamless delivery and integration. However, DevOps entails more than the implementation of the latest automation tool and demands a more holistic approach. It does so by bringing together processes, people and technologies under a shared vision. As defined by Microsoft, DevOps is the coalition of products, people and processes to facilitate the seamless delivery of value to the end customers. DevOps is considered to be the latest advancement of the Agile movement. It includes more number of stakeholders in the process of delivering value by linking the silo based teams. It may not be the best...

Why is Continuous Integration important to achieve Continuous Testing?

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Continuous Testing The DevOps and Agile based culture of software development has led to faster builds, quick validation and delivery, instant feedback loops, cost savings, and holding onto the competitive edge. This culture has brought in components like Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) to address the industry need for developing and delivering better quality software at a faster rate. In fact, CI/CD is fast becoming the industry standard for software development as opposed to the traditional waterfall model. The digitaltransformation initiatives embraced by businesses to reach out to their target customers effectively have brought the quality of a product to the centre stage. Earlier, it was majorly about the quantity of a product to be gobbled up by voracious customers who wanted an online experience. This mentality has undergone a change as of today. As customers have developed an appetite for quality software that works seamlessly without any...

How can API Testing be carried out in a DevOps environment?

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DevOps testing, API testing The Application Programming Interface or API is an important set of tools, protocols or programs that connects applications and servers and helps them communicate with each other without any human intervention. It enables the internet to remain a vast reservoir of interconnected applications that provides various types of services to the users. For example, if one is able to log into popular sites like Quora by using Facebook or Google, then it is validated by APIs that work behind the scenes. Another example is the rating of websites (policy bazaar.com etc) that garner information from relevant websites and provide them on a single platform. Similarly, APIs help mobile applications to interact with multiple elements and environments such as devices, operating systems, memory, processors, and networks. In the absence of APIs, the application running on your mobile will come to nought.   Since APIs play such a crucial role in the functioning ...