Role Of Quality Analyst In DevOps Environment

We all know that DevOps is defined as the next level of software development that permits coding and testing to happen simultaneously and capabilities timely teamwork between all concerned functions/departments.

Organizations today are in a change mode, progressing from traditional methodologies and best methods of software development and testing to the most modern-day approach of DevOps. The underlying reason is to fast-track time to market and be in an improved position to react to ever-evolving customer needs. Customer needs are the main factor that changing the software industry.

With the total market for DevOps tools achieving up to $2. 3 billion in 2015 (up by 21. 1% from $1. 9 billion in 2014), Gartner, Inc. wants strong growth opportunities for DevOps toolsets. By 2018, DevOps will evolve from a niche strategy used by large cloud providers to a mainstream strategy employed by 30% of Global 2000 organizations.

QA has always been seen as a "gatekeeper" for software deliveries. However, in a DevOps environment, QA is considered as the part of the process itself since there are no boundaries between development and functions leading to agile results unlike a traditional environment where development and functions are segregated functions and businesses team fixed issues raised by development teams.

In DevOps organizations, QA pushes away new development code to a production environment and DevOps teams provide facilities and tools to make the deployment process easier while simultaneously verifying that the changes are operating as per the necessity.

In a traditional QA focused organizations, the good quality assurance teams give attention to finding bugs while in DevOps organizations, the responsibility of quality assurance is not limited to that but for prevent them from arising in the first place and also maintaining the software quality after the release. This procedure helps in a setting where there is a need for newer releases every few minutes or several hours. Here, manual testing is actually ruled out as an option and automation testing should be deployed.

In organisations that have effectively accepted DevOps as a main part, the software delivery process consist of "three R’s":

Rapid

Reliable

Relevant

Rapid is what usually comes to mind when we are into the world of DevOps - getting the code to be run into production phase fast. And you can’t attain rapidity without automation, both in terms of automated deployment and in terms of automated testing.

Reliable means that what we are doing in the production that will work perfectly if not then we will fix as soon as possible. Automation also essential here too, in particular a good balance of automated testing at different levels.

Relevant means that you are implementing the features that will make the most business impact, and deliver the highest ROI, at this point in time.

All of this hinges on having a strong Culture of Continuous Quality embedded throughout the process.

Summarizing the Discussion

DevOps helps attain procedure developments all through the Software Advancement Lifecycle (SDLC), as QA can instantaneously recognise issues in process and endorse improvements necessary all through the development life cycle. There is a model shift in development and QA with the rising acceptance of DevOps across IT industry.

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