The practice of DevOps is not new, yet in the last two years it has seemingly dominated chatter within software development. But what does DevOps really mean? And what is the impact of DevOps on QA teams, if any at all? Join us as DevOps Analyst Chris Riley shares the meaning and history of DevOps, his perspective on the movement, and his ideas about its future. He will share the knowledge that he has gathered from tools vendors and practitioners, all to help you navigate the sea of DevOps conversations to maximize the movement to your advantage.

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What is DevOps &
What Does it Mean for QA?
Presented by Chris Riley ( @HoardingInfo ), DevOps AnalystJuly 14, 2015

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Presenter
Chris Riley – technologist, research
analyst, O’Reilly author and subject
matter expert on DevOps. @hoardinginfo

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Outline
• Introduction
• Definitions
• Nope … not really new
• New Challenges
• The Intersection of DevOps & QA
• A QA Strategy for DevOps
• Future of _______

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The Two Faces
The Movement: People, Process, Tools
The Function: Infrastructure automation and
oversight

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Data?

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Why the movement?

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A moving Target
• Confusion! “DevOps”
Function
“DevOps”
Movement
“DevOps”
“DevOps”
“DevOps”
“DevOps”
Developer
QA
IT Ops
“DevOps”
Vendor
Executive
Observer /
SI

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Enterprise SMB Startup
Developer Eh.. But LOB? Cool Done!
QA No Time Need the $$ What QA
Executive Nah. I want to keep my job Do that thing I’ll script it
IT Ops Done it for years, leave me alone My budget, My thing What’s IT?
Vendor They are doing it They are doing it Did it
Observer/SI $ You got this -

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False Comparison

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So Basically No One Knows
Trough of disillusionment

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What we do know:
• People then Process then Tools
• The processes are concrete
• Plan
• Dev
• Integrate
• QA
• System Test
• Release
• Monitor
• Measure
• “Culture” != Debug Ninja | Rockstar | Slide in the Lobby
• It is evolving

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But Really It Is Very Easy
Faster releases at a higher quality

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Faster releases at a higher quality

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Uh oh - Problem
Current and Looming Challenges of DevOps
• We went too fast, crashed - sustainability
• We release a whole bunch, but no clue what is going on
• The more bugs, the more bugs, the more bugs, the more
• Chef is so three years ago – change
• Oh yeah the person who did that, they left
• Heartbleed v2.0

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Why Should QA Care?

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Who Cares?
• Get a budget
• Play with new and cool tools
• Be Prepared for Change
• Greater Opportunity

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Happen to it, don’t let it happen to you
What can QA do?
• Deliver wins
• Deliver data
• Find your spot
• Continuous Documentation
• Make your developers champions
• Suggest improvements to the pipeline
• Realize and leverage your unique position
• Automate something, then automate something else

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Real-world
• Acorns
• WellsFargo
• Constant Contact

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The Future of ______
Where is it going?
• A mobile focus
• Containers not code
• Developers are more accountable
• User driven test case development
• QA -> QE: Test Strategy, Quality Evangelist

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QA
Resources
• Test Automation KPIs - http://sauceio.com/index.php/2015/06/test-automation-
kpis/
• It Worked on My Machine - http://sauceio.com/index.php/2015/07/it-worked-
on-my-machine-communication-trap/
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