Can an IT DevOps approach speed up CSP Innovation?

Source – vanillaplus.com Copy your fiercest competitor We believe that a new mentality and way of working, a far more collaborative, flexible and lean way of working is needed in CSP organisations. This is easier said than done as CSPs have inherited a legacy infrastructure. But a change in mindset, more transparency, collaboration and efficient processes will become necessary if the competitive level is to be increased or even maintained. One way of achieving this it to introduce a DevOps culture

Change is the Focus: QA in the DevOps Era

Source:- capgemini.com There is a popular business adage that states, “Fast, Good, Cheap: pick any two”. But what if you want it all? I definitely want to ensure good quality, in little time and at the lowest cost. Therein lies the challenge. Throughout the product development lifecycle, we face bottlenecks that often prevent us from having it all. Today, Agile and DevOps introduce timeboxed development and continuous integration, which means shorter development cycles and more frequent releases. This results in

March 1, 2017 Mantosh Singh DevOps, DevOps Process, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

How to make mobile app security testing automation a DevOps reality

Source:- nowsecure.com Eighty-one percent of enterprises and 70 percent of small-to-medium businesses have adopted DevOps according to the RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report.1 In comparison, only 29 percent of mobile apps, on average, undergo vulnerability testing according to the 2017 Study on Mobile IoT Application Security conducted by Ponemon Institute.2 I think the gap between these two statistics can be reduced with some minor effort. The purpose of this article is to explain how to make mobile app security

February 24, 2017 Mantosh Singh DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Why automation doesn’t necessarily remove the need for QA

Source:- techrepublic.com In software development, the rise of automation tools has largely eliminated human involvement. ON one hand, it’s easy to say that automation has further eliminated the need for QA but that’s not the case. As experts have noted, QA is still essential, as is human intervention in some cases, to ensure a quality product is deployed. “Test automation may largely eliminate the need for manual testing in some scenarios, but it will never eliminate the need for QA,”

February 17, 2017 Mantosh Singh Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Automated Test Environments for DevOps

Source:- capgemini.com 1 Test Environments Management: Key Challenges A testing environment is a setup of software and hardware in which the testing team tests a new software build. A test environment consists of pre-production or staging environments, and is generally a downgraded version of a production environment to help uncover pre-production defects. Building and maintaining a test environment is important. Often, dedicated test environments are maintained at various stages like developer test, dedicated test, integration test, and pre-production or business