Software Quality Assurance Testing Guide Tips And Practices

DevSecOps   Businesses are adopting the DevOps approach as the be all and end all methodology to deliver an intuitive and robust customer experience throughout the product lifecycle. While going about this, the Development and Operations teams use automated processes and tools to sustain the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline. This way, disparate teams manage to collaborate and tackle critical issues including having a better control over the product release cycle and delivering quicker updates. Along with implementing DevOps from the CI/CD perspective, there is a rising concern about the security of software applications. This has come about due to increased incidences of security threats resulting in the loss of sensitive personal and business information. As a consequence, businesses often face regulatory censure or penalties and a loss of trust in the market. No wonder, IT thinktanks have understood the need to incorporate security a...

Aligning Test Automation with DevOps and Agile     Businesses have adopted digital technologies in large measure to stay competitive and provide a rich customer experience. This has involved implementing cutting edge methodologies such as Agile and DevOps to shorten the development cycle and reach the market quickly with better quality products or services. These methodologies have, in turn, necessitated the use of test automation in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This is done to cope with the sheer volume of testing, especially the regression runs, which by all accounts cannot be done manually (read in the traditional waterfall model). Quality and customer centricity – paradigms defining businesses The success of a business is not defined by its huge turnover or having a vast portfolio of products and services anymore. It is more about the kind of quality experience it provides to the customers. In other words, if the quality of the products or ...

DevSecOps, Security testing   If DevOps is about producing quality applications quickly and ensuring their upkeep throughout the product lifecycle, then DevSecOps is about securing the application from cyber threats. It is about integrating the security aspect into the DevOps workflow while ensuring transparency, agility, and speed. The entire DevOps paradigm is based on the following three pillars: ·          Establishing the CI/CD pipeline & letting the codes pass through it. ·          The test automation tools to ensure the functioning of CI/CD. ·          The pipeline environment. Key challenges in delivering DevSecOps ·          Although DevOps has been adopted by the stakeholders as something that brings value for money, security has still not been accorded the same priority. ·  ...