Quality at the Speed of Agile and DevOps with Continuous Testing - is “testing at every step” and not “QA” at the end.
Continuous testing is executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to obtain feedback on the business risks associated with a software release candidate as rapidly as possible. It helps to achieve continuous quality & improvement.
Continuous testing cannot be implemented without test automation. It requires automation of tests at one or more levels, such as Unit Tests, API Tests, Web Services Tests, and End-to-End functional UI Tests, but not required to automate the tests at all levels.
Continuous testing is a lean process of quality at every step. It includes quality user stories, quality environments, quality unit tests, and quality performance tests. Continuous testing is “testing at every step” and not “QA” at the end. It is also shifting testing tasks from Ops at the end by testing earlier and all along the way.
We have expertise in implementing continuous testing using all the latest test automation tools such as Katalon Studio, Cypress, EndTest.io, Selenium, Appium, TestComplete, Testim.io, Postman, SoapUI, Puppeteer, JMeter, and Tricentis Tosca;
Continuous Test Execution: we have expertise in integrating the continuous automated test execution for the above automation tools with most of the CI/CD DevOps tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity, GitLab, Bamboo, etc.
Continuous Test Reporting: We have experience integrating the Test Automation tools with test management tools such as Jira XRAY/Zephyr, PractiTest, AzureDevOps, TestPad, etc., to post the test results into the test management tools along with evidence for pass/fail.
At QualiTlabs, we follow some of the below approaches based on Application Under Test (AUT)-
- Continuous Testing with Test Automation
- Create a robust framework for automation testing to minimize the false positives and improve maintenance in Test Automation
- Continuous Test execution using DevOps tools – Automate the entire release deployment ruling out human errors that includes running automated unit tests, functional tests(UI/API), core performance, and core security tests.
- Use the cloud platforms for cross-browser/environment/device testing, such as BrowserStack, LambdaTest, etc.
- Continuous Test Reporting by integrating the Test Automation tools with test management tools and posting the test results
- Move from Traditional QA to DevOps QA approach
Advantages of Continuous Testing
- Test Early, Test Often, Fix Early
- Achieve Quality at the Speed of Agile and DevOps
- Never Ship Broken Code into the production
- Automated Test Execution and Continuous Quality Monitoring
- Automated Test Reporting
- Go to Market Faster and to be a Market Leader