{"id":11752,"date":"2021-08-05T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/?p=11752"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T09:54:16","slug":"testing-in-devops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/devops\/testing-in-devops\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing in DevOps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traditional waterfall testing in traditional set up is much different from testing in a DevOps environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The essentials of testing in a DevOps environment have been listed below&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>DevOps stages of continuous integration and continuous delivery necessitates frequent software releases. So, testing becomes much more important in every stage of Software development lifecycle than in traditional set-up, to ensure high software quality&nbsp;<\/li><li>The testing is done by the entire team not just assigned testers in a DevOps environment contrary to a traditional set up where testers worked in siloes with the operations and the development teams. Testing is a shared responsibility in DevOps environment.<\/li><li>Some DevOps test like pre-flight tests is conducted in an environment which is almost similar to the production environment in user deployment. This reduces the chance of false positives&nbsp;<\/li><li>The primary job of QA in a traditional set up was practically to detect bugs while the&nbsp;QA in DevOps is responsible from stopping the defects reach the end user&nbsp;<\/li><li>Each stage of SDLC requires different forms of testing and tools for testing in DevOps environment&nbsp;<\/li><li>In DevOps environment code changes are merged with the repository continuously through continuous integration. Such frequent changes necessitate continuous code testing to ensure error free codes. The different types of tests afforded for testing codes are unit tests, functional tests, acceptance tests and integration tests&nbsp;<\/li><li>DevOps teams generally employ integrated automated testing suites whose test areas range from codes, APIs, performance, load balancing, endurance etc.&nbsp;Some of the most popular test automation tools in DevOps are&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Selenium&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\"><li>Katalon&nbsp;Studio&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"3\"><li>Soap Ui and&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"4\"><li>Jmeter&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Contrary to traditional testing where testing started after the software was complete developed, DevOps employs testing in the entire CI\/CD pipeline, at every stage of SDLC&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>DevOps testers need to have cross teams working skills and a broad understanding of the tools and technologies like Source Control&nbsp;tools and concepts&nbsp;(using Git,&nbsp;Svn&nbsp;etc),Continuous Integration (using Jenkins, VSTS ),&nbsp;Infrastructure Automation (using Puppet,&nbsp;Ansible),Deployment Automation &amp; Orchestration&nbsp;concepts&nbsp;(using Jenkins,&nbsp;Octopus Deploy).Container Concepts (LXD, Docker),Orchestration&nbsp;concepts&nbsp;(Kubernetes, Swarm),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.getzephyr.com\/insights\/using-devops-cloud-environment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cloud<\/a>\u202f(using AWS, Google&nbsp;Cloud,&nbsp;Azure etc.)&nbsp;<\/li><li>Ideally DevOps teams should create various testing documents like&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Risk Assessment Report&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use Case Specifications&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Test cases summary reports&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quality Management Plans&nbsp;and others&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>DevOps uses Shift Left testing approach\u00a0<br><br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"section\" data-elementor-id=\"33182\" class=\"elementor elementor-33182\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-88fb3b3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"88fb3b3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-eaf9399\" data-id=\"eaf9399\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-59a2347 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"59a2347\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-38acb31\" data-id=\"38acb31\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9dc7b5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c9dc7b5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Ready to automate dev &amp; ops to shorten the SDLC? 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So, if you consider the six stages of the SDLC on a straight line, shift left means putting your maximum testing efforts&nbsp;for all probable scenarios at the early stages of the lifecycle development&nbsp;<br><br>Shift left method is more preferable so that defects can be negated at early stages and not when the software delivery is on its final legs. This would help reduce the cost in product development multiple times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the rapid growth of DevOps and adoption of DevOps practices by organizations, the need for testing as a service (TAAS) has increased rapidly.&nbsp;Ismile&nbsp;Technologies offer TAAS and guides the DevOps testing process, provides the necessary resources for testing and perform both functional and non-functional testing&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional waterfall testing in traditional set up is much different from testing in a DevOps environment.&nbsp;&nbsp; The essentials of testing in a DevOps environment have been listed below&nbsp; DevOps stages of continuous integration and continuous delivery necessitates frequent software releases. 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