4 elements of a highly effective continuous testing strategy

Source:-https://techbeacon.com Often, when organizations plan and implement an effective test automation strategy, they believe that they are implementing continuous testing. They are wrong. Test automation is certainly one of the most critical components of continuous testing. But implementing continuous testing begins with a multi-layered test strategy that includes all the types and levels of testing required—including unit, integration, functional, exploratory, and automated. Continuous testing must also have a strategy for incorporating testing throughout the continuous integration pipeline. Organizations turn to

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4 ways to kickstart DevOps spring cleaning

Source:- enterprisersproject.com How to clean up your DevOps act – from clarifying team roles to identifying barriers. The reward: Faster software releases and improved customer satisfaction With springtime comes warmer weather, sunnier days, and baseball season. However, it also brings April showers, yard work, and, for software development teams, the latest smartphone and tablet devices. With new tech hitting the shelves during this time of year, developers and testers alike are pressed to accelerate successful software release cycles that match consumer demand. That situation,

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Adopting Continuous Delivery at teamplay, Siemens Healthineers

Source – infoq.com Overview Continuous Delivery is about working in a way that keeps the system in a releasable state throughout its development. This, seemingly simple idea, requires rethinking of all aspects of a traditional software development process. In this article, we will describe how a large software development organization at Siemens Healthineers started the transformation towards Continuous Delivery. We will describe the strategy and tactics used to gradually and safely change the development process in a regulated medical domain. teamplay

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Benefits of Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Source – blogs.agilefaqs.com Should you consider BDD for your team? I just wanted to share my experience with BDD, which you could consider as food for thoughts: Why? – How often does your development team ask the business team why certain feature is important? More importantly, why now and how much of it is enough? In my experience with BDD, the approach naturally lends the teams to have a constructive discussion about this. I’ve seen this leading to a genuine collaboration

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Behavior-Driven Development

Source:- digility.com Another great knowledge share from the Digilty/Mastek team. The latest webinar focused on Behavior Driven Development in automated testing using the Cucumber framework. Here are the top five takeaways from the session, led by Tripti Mittal: What is BDD BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) is a fusion and improved enhancements of practices stemming from TDD (Test Driven Development) and ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development). Unlike TDD where testing & development are conducted in isolation, BDD is a collaborative exercise that

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