In the DevOps world, with its faster release cycles and continuous delivery, quality assurance (QA) cannot be sidelined until the end of the process. Companies that actively use automation achieve up to 60% faster release cycles compared to those relying solely on manual testing. However, automation alone is insufficient. Without the right QA mindset, moving faster can […]
Get Testing Bottlenecks Out of Your Pipelines
I first learned the term “deployment pipeline” when I read “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test and Deployment Automation,” by Jez Humble and David Farley back in 2009. End-to-end automation of the build, deploy, test and release processes kick in each time a team member commits a change to the source code repository. […]
Exploratory Testing: Expanding Testing Across the Delivery Cycle
Mindless testing, whether it is manually or automatically executed, can cover only a very narrow scope of possible bugs: the ones you’ve already thought of. Exploratory testing however, endeavors to think outside that scope. Thoughtful testers look at a problem from all angles, weighing factors such as feature usage, psychology, user stories and more. Their […]