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Monday 18 December 2017

DevOps Automation For Faster And Continuous Product Release

By Janet Jackson


Success will not come on a silver platter unless corporations set the foundation for it. In the aggressive competition of grabbing opportunities in the market that defines the business environment today, only the strong and forward thinking ones will survive. Businesses encompass a myriad of IT solutions that ensure a timely product delivery to consumers and streamlining activities. However, there are more effective ways to do this. The Devops Automation subject is addressed to C level managers who are at the top of finance and healthcare to name a few.

It further requires enterprises to facilitate constant communication and collaboration among programmers, testers, and operation staff. The practitioners further need to use specialized tools to unify development, QA, and operations smoothly. At the same time, an enterprise also has to focus specifically on implementing it testing to evaluate the quality of the software from the planning phase to deployment phase of the project. Hence, each enterprise has to focus on many factors to implement testing efficiently.

Chef: This is a configuration management tool that aids in automating configuration, deployment, and management of software applications. It deals with machine setup on the cloud, on servers, and on virtual machines. Configuration management ensures that all the files and software in your computers are configured correctly and are functional. The chef does this by treating the infrastructure of your machines as pieces of code called 'recipes', which is in turn compiled in 'cookbooks.' Puppet: This too is a configuration management tool that works to automate provisioning, configuration, and management of devices. CERN, Oracle, and Reddit are among its noted users.

Continuous Integration- It emphasizes on the continuous and rapid delivery of software applications. To facilitate faster delivery of software modules, the practitioner must facilitate continuous integration (CI). CI will enable QA professionals to perform unit tests regularly to evaluate the quality of code being added to the centralized code base on a daily basis. They can further get the bugs or defects identified through unit testing fixed immediately by coordinating with programmers.

SaltStack: This is a remote execution tool and configuration management system that allows users to run commands on different machines along with a targeting system. This makes Salt a multitasking system that can be used to solve multiple problems in an infrastructure.

Additional Tests and Checks- CI will help enterprises to evaluate the quality of code being added to the centralized code base. But the enterprises still need to perform a variety of tests to evaluate the software's functionality, performance, usability, and accessibility. The QA professionals need to perform load testing under varying user loads to check the performance of the application while being accessed by a large number of users simultaneously.

Likewise, they need to perform compatibility testing to check how the application works with other devices, operating systems, and browsers. The QA professionals also need to perform elaborate usability testing to check if the application is simple and easy to use. An enterprise has to provide robust tools to enable QA professionals to perform compatibility, usability, and performance testing repeatedly throughout the cycle.

Production Environment Monitoring- A single cycle covers all software development activities - coding, testing, and operations. Hence, the practitioner needs to get the software testers throughout the development and deployment process. In addition to performing the required tests, the QA professionals also need to monitor the production environment continuously. The constant monitoring of the production environment will help the testers to identify the bugs before making the software crash.




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