DevOps is not just a buzzword anymore. In fact, it has become a primary focus and has been influencing the software industry for the last few years. According to experts, DevOps is expected to go mainstream as its popularity has reached its peak in 2018.
Today, we will see five changes in DevOps that have affected the software testing in 2018.
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The Transformation of Focus to DevOps Assembly Lines from CI Pipelines
Pipelines enable you to see the whole visualization of your app from source control to development. You can look at everything in one pane of glass. It is not only regarding doing CI, but it is also about continuous delivery (CD). This has led organizations to invest their effort and time to understand more regarding understanding automating their entire software development and testing process.
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Automation Becoming the Primary Focus
We get to discuss more regarding automation in DevOps. If possible, zero-touch automation is going to be the future. This does not mean that you have to automate all the things. However, if you have to, then you must be capable of doing it. This has made, understanding the 6 C’s of the DevOps cycle and guaranteeing to apply the automation between these phases, the main objective this year. These 6 Cs include:
- Continuous business planning
- Collaborative Development
- Continuous Testing
- Continuous Release and Deployment
- Continuous Monitoring
- Customer feedback and optimization.
Testers Expected to Learn to Code
There is a huge demand for testers who know to code and automate scripts to test different test cases. Experts suggest that every tester must learn to code. Understanding numerous automating scripts and DevOps tools play an important role in software development and has dominated this year.
It is believed that it can become difficult for the testers to survive if they don’t learn to code and write their own automated scripts. Manual testing is expected to become obsolete in the coming time period as it takes a lot of time. Automation in testing enhances efficiency and guarantees that the features are delivered faster to the market.
Increase in the Adoption of Microservices Architecture
Microservices and DevOps go hand in hand. Microservices are known as independent entities. Therefore, they don’t break other systems and create any dependencies when something goes wrong. Microservices architecture assists companies to make deployments and add more features. Organizations are expected to shift to microservices architecture to increase efficient delivery and their runtime. This is because it makes software testing very easy.
More Companies Expected to Select Enterprise Versions
There are various companies who are stuck between the build or buy decision. However, it has been recommended to do the things you are best at and purchase the tools according to your requirements. This assists you to increase your focus on goals and productivity by completely relying on the third-party platform. Majority of the companies are now going for enterprise versions to attain their own infrastructure and guarantee that security is in the best hands possible.
