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Is your software testing team satisfied with their current test coverage or the cost associated with it? Well, it is not an easy task to write test scripts without defining business goals. So moving to continuous testing and test automation can help teams in improving their testing efforts. We know automated tests have a number of benefits that cannot be achieved with manual testing. Thus, firms look for an automation testing company to shift to Agile and DevOps methodologies.

Why Continuous Testing?

A shift to continuous testing could help development teams in achieving their goals. Continuous testing is the process of executing automated tests during the software development process to highlight business risks in the early stages. On the other hand, test automation tests user requirements while continuous testing covers the entire DevOps process and provides an insight into business risks. 

Continuous testing is important for the following reasons:

  1. Applications are becoming more complex, which makes bug tracking difficult for the development teams. For instance, a single app may include several services and APIs that interact with other client apps. So continuous testing can make bug tracking simpler and easier.
  2. Software release cycles are shorter due to increasing demand and competition so there is less time for manual testing. Most of the firms are following the continuous testing approach which means they deploy new software versions in real-time. 
  3. Due to the interconnectedness of various software apps and business processes – when an app crashes, it affects the business adversely. Businesses that depend on their software apps suffer great losses due to any issue in the apps. Thus, the continuous testing approach ensures quality at all stages of the software development process. An automation testing company uses automated and manual testing for software quality assurance. 

Automation in DevOps and Agile

It is not necessary that all automation engineers understand how to fit their tests in the Agile and DevOps environment, especially if they are working in isolation. Even if they are not involved in the entire DevOps processes, it is important to understand automation in detail. Let’s define a few common factors of test automation to see how they add value to any business:

  • Developers, test engineers and other major stakeholders of a test automation project should discuss user stories and come up with the best solutions. They should include executable behavior-driven development (BDD) tests. 
  • DevOps engineers should develop continuous integration (CI) servers and run codes in a shared repository. They should execute all tests and ensure everything works accurately. They can also set up stage testing or pre-production testing. 
  • Test engineers can also reuse the tests in the shared repository for user acceptance testing and monitoring the post-production tests. 
  • Automation engineers or QA write additional tests and run other necessary quality checks. For instance, they run performance tests to ensure that an app works as expected to under various loads. 

An automation testing company uses the continuous testing approach along with test automation to make quality software apps to meet the current release cycles. 

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker is an entrepreneur and tech enthusiast who loves to incorporate new technologies to get more efficient outcomes. When he's not marketing his latest venture, he keeps himself busy in writing technical articles to educate peers and professionals.
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