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How is DevOps and Agile business strategy enabled through automation

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Agile Business Strategy In the competitive digital economy, speed to market has become inevitable and highly sought after. As speed becomes a business imperative, restrictive and lengthy software development cycles are no longer useful in business environments. Users can abandon any application at any point of time and the consequent poor customer experience can affect a brand. This makes agile test automation crucial to attaining quality and speed. The agile testing strategy has fortified digital business practices while allowing stakeholders -from business analysts to testers, align to their business goals and remain flexible. Enterprises are looking at expediting digital transformation and keeping pace with innovation. They are going about it without making compromises on the stability of their core business processes. The main aspect of that transformation includes deploying new services in dynamic corporate environments where lines of business expect fast results. D...

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...

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 ...