automation testing with devops in agile methodolgy

1. Archana Krushnan , Senior Test Analyst
Nihilent Technologies
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Automation Testing with
Devops in Agile Methodolgy

2. What Is DevOps?
• DevOps – a portmanteau of Development & Operations – is a software
development methodology which looks to integrate all the software
development functions from development to operations within the same
cycle.
• This calls for higher level of coordination within the various stakeholders
in the software development process (namely Development, QA &
Operations).
• Devops is not a tool, it’s not a methodology, but it’s a process of
integrating software development and quality. Devops is not release
management system, it integrates with release management system by
standardizing the process.
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3. Devops Trends
• Traditional Development teams and Operations departments normally have completely
different motivations and deliverables. Development keeps changing things based on user or
market demands for new features (and fixes of existing features). Operations try to keep
everything as constant as possible in order to deliver maximum availability and stability of
software services. These two contradicting goals create a bottleneck when it comes to
delivery of business value.
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4. Why DevOps: Automated Deployment
• Most companies are adopting this Devops model in order to facilitate a practice of
automated software deployment. DevOps provides the structure that enables teams to push
software out as a service on a weekly, or daily, or even hourly basis. The traditional concept
of a “software releases” transforms into a continuous cycle of service improvement.
• DevOps is a logical evolution in removing all the obstacles to getting high-quality software in
the hands of customers. It smoothens the process for
agile development and continuous integration, automating the process makes it easier, is
more transparent and leads to higher quality.
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5. Beyond Functional Testing: Automation for Load
Testing, Stress Testing, and Performance Testing
• As processes are maturing and Devops is moving at high speed, you may want to integrate
performance testing, stress tests and load tests along with it. It’s about creating a continuous
process to both check and monitor the software services.
• Once the processes are mature and stable enough to be moved to Devops, functional testing
can be integrated with load, stress and performance, to continuously integrate with the
process to aid more control and structured way of operation. Performance tests can be
integrated to check the performance over a period of time on real time data rather than
idealistic data. Similarly load and stress can be tested over a period of time.
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6. Devops in Real world
• DevOps practices promise bridge all communication gaps that usually exist between software
engineers, IT, QA and other parts of the business. DevOps should create complete
transparency within the business to facilitate agile planning and prompt decision-making. So,
as the organization integrates DevOps, it makes services continuous.
• DevOps projects must identify and align with business needs, it always ask why you're taking
up a DevOps approach and what success will look like. DevOps specific goal will be to shorten
the cycle to fix bugs or grapple with fewer bugs in each new release, improving customer
retention.
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7. Devops and Cloud computing
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• DevOps developers successfully use private or public cloud to
create more complex environments that simulate production
use for version testing.. This makes testing faster and simpler
than traditional provisioning requests to IT.
• Public cloud is usually preferable because it offers high
scalability and self-service without any danger of exhausting
local IT resources. When testing is complete, the public cloud
resources can be released to save money until the next
testing cycle starts.

8. Approach for Integrating Devops and
Automated Testing in cloud
Step 1: Get proper Test automation in place
Step 2: Choosing the right CI Integration and integrating it
Step 3: Making customizations as requirements for organization and cloud integration
Step 4: Monitoring Results
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9. Challenges in implementing Devops
• The organization processes and practices must be matured enough for Devops.
• Exploratory or ad-hoc testing may at first appear to have no room in DevOps.
• DevOps is still a relatively young method, partly experimental, so support is solely dependent
on internet.
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10. References & Appendix
• http://www.cloudtp.com/2016/02/10/7-steps-to-choosing-
the-right-devops-tools/
• https://www.upguard.com/blog/devops-test-automation
• http://www.agileweboperations.com/why-automated-
testing-is-a-must-for-devops
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11. Author Biography
Professional History and Credentials:
Archana Krushnan is currently working as Test Analyst at Nihilent
Technologies Pvt Ltd. She has been in the field of Software Testing for 6
years and worked on several domains such as Telecom, Ecommerce and
Healthcare. Her interests include exploring new things in testing and
sharing on her blog. She has previous experiences of working with
companies like Reliance Communications Ltd and Fab.com. She has good
knowledge in Selenium, Jmeter and Soap UI. She is ISTQB Foundation
Level Certified.
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