The world is changing fast and with it the needs and requirements of the market and users. As a result, agile development processes are becoming widespread to ensure product development stays in sync with the changing world.

However, rapidly changing products require agility and alignment with operations and DevOps. DevOps lowers barriers between development and operations teams to release products faster and seamlessly. While DevOps is a methodology or way of working, we cannot overlook the importance of automation throughout the process.

While tools and automation without the right mindset won’t deliver the expected results, it should be noted that without the right tools and automation, the mindset will also fall short of the expected results.

This is because even well-defined processes will not execute well without proper oversight and governance. When these controls and governances are automated, it helps to maintain required processes.

In addition, it helps to achieve the goal of faster deployment. And when the responsibility for an action is shifted to a machine for execution, it becomes more repeatable and much faster with a higher degree of objectivity. Therefore, automation tools are an inseparable part of any DevOps strategy.

A bottleneck in automated DevOps

They try to automate the whole DevOps process. First, your code is stored in a shared repository and merged with the code of others, and conflicts are resolved (largely automated and sometimes manually). Then, based on an automated trigger, your codebase’s dependencies are resolved and the product is built. Finally, the necessary infrastructure is provided and the created product is deployed on it.

Everything went well, except for one big problem: we still don’t know that the product built and deployed works at all. We don’t even know if even the already working functionalities are broken due to build or environment errors. Therefore, a successful deployment does not guarantee that we have deployed a successful product.

So the code now needs to be tested by the QA team.

This will take its own time, and manual testing can take a while, sometimes much longer than it took to develop the incremental change, since even the existing code needs to be regression-tested.

This slows down the whole process significantly. As a result, a large part of the speed and agility gained in the deployment process is lost. Remember that the strength of a chain is defined by its weakest link.

Get your DevOps strategy back on its feet with test automation

The solution is pretty simple. Like other parts of the supply chain, testing needs to be automated.

Automated tests can run without human intervention and generate test reports and logs. Not only can you test the application from the UI, but you can also automate testing of backend components and APIs. Automation allows you to test the new and existing features before each release to ensure the application is in good health.

Automated tests take a fraction of the time compared to manual tests, and most importantly, they can be performed as part of your DevOps sequences while you sleep. Application testing automation eliminates the weak link in your DevOps strategy and brings the benefits you’ve been waiting for.

Wishup software testers can easily automate your software testing to give your DevOps the boost it needs. To learn more about our software testers and the value they can add to your test automation process, or to hire one, visit our website at Wishup.co or simply email us at [email protected] for a free consultation.