DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE HELPS TEST YOUR PRODUCTS BETTER
We have invested in our domain capabilities and over the years we
have developed success stories in multiple industries by helping our
clients delivering products to the end users just in time without
compromising the quality.
Software applications developed for and tailored to, specific
industries can offer significant business benefits. But there can
be risks. Will they integrate properly with existing applications? Will
they be reliable? Will they be in compliance and secure?
Our QT teams can test the business readiness of these customized applications to minimize risk and ensure maximum return
on your investment.
- Healthcare
- Insurance
- Technology
- Information, Media, and Entertainment
- e-Learning or Education
- Logistics
- Retail
- Travel and Hospitality
- Consumer Goods
- Manufacturing
- Banking and Financial Services
- Transportation Logistics
Quality at the Speed of Agile & DevOps
Posted by KISHORE| Posted On December 24th, 2020|QA, Quality Assurance
Projects using waterfall often have release cycles measured in months
(some even years). Agile and scrum revolutionized so much in software
by being able to ship at the end of each sprint – it could be anywhere
from weeks to days, even to hours in some projects. DevOps often has
automated deployments scheduled multiple times per day. This means the
rate of change to production code can be orders of magnitude faster in
DevOps than even agile. This sets the stage for delivering Quality at
the Speed of DevOps and Agile.
In an Agile world, teams are being asked to move faster — reducing
the length of time to delivery while continuing to improve the quality
of each release. At the same time, they are faced with increased
pressure to reduce testing costs.
“testing at every step” and not “QA” at the end.
Testing is a lean process of quality at every step. It includes
quality user stories, quality environments, quality test data, quality
unit tests, quality functional tests, and quality performance tests. It
is “testing at every step” and not “QA” at the end.
We Don’t Compromise Between Speed And Quality
As digital disrupts business, we’re seeing an unprecedented demand
for speed, while quality, of course, is a given; as a result, old ways
of testing don’t cut it anymore. we at QualiTlabs, do never compromise
on quality to achieve the ‘speed’.
At QualiTlabs we achieve Quality at Speed by implementing the following
Shift Left Testing
Our testers involve from the very start – join design sessions to ask
questions about how customers work, try to find gaps in requirements in
the user stories, which ultimately leads to design changes. Some team
members can work closely with back-end developers to ask questions and
create test ideas and ‘what if’ type scenarios. Others sit down with the
API developers and stub out tests for new services while they were
being developed. And yet others find themselves pairing up with the UI
and API developers to test something new on their machine before it hit a
build.
Actual testing still happens at the end, but it will be smaller and
faster because of the problems you can find earlier on. Shift left
doesn’t exactly move testing closer to the beginning of a release cycle.
It sprinkles it over each step and each iteration.
In this approach, we have test cases ready by the time new code moves
into the QA environment; we just executed the test cases related to the
features/stories of the current sprint, while we run the automated
tests for all regression testing of the already released features. This
helps us find bugs early in the sprint cycle, thus gives more time for
the developers to fix the bugs.
Test Automation
Test automation is undoubtedly no longer an optional idea in quality
assurance. Increasing the adoption of DevOps and Agile are some of the
key factors driving the growth of the automation testing market. As more
businesses adopt the latest Agile and DevOps processes to fulfill the
demand for Quality at Speed, test automation has become an indispensable
component.
We create reliable and maintainable automated tests for all
regression areas of the past sprints using the latest test automation
tools. We have implemented Test Automation for more than 95% of the
clients.
We create automated tests for the UI end to end test cases, API (REST, GraphQL, Microservices) layer, and DB layer.
To expedite the development of the automation tests, we use the
in-house developed automation frameworks, this also improves the
reliability of the test execution results and maintainability.
QAOps
‘DevOps’—a set of software development practices that combines
development (Dev) and information technology operations (Ops). The goal
of DevOps is to shorten the systems development life cycle (SDLC), while
teams can focus on building features, fixing bugs, and pushes frequent
updates that are in alignment with business objectives. DevOps bridges
the collaboration between developers and business operationalists.
In the same spirit, QAOps helps increase the direct communication
flow between testing engineers and developers by integrating software
testing into the CI/CD pipeline, rather than having the QA team operate
in isolation. In short, QAOps is defined in two key principles:
- QA activities should be incorporated into the CI/CD pipeline
- QA engineers should work in alignment with developers and be involved throughout the CI/CD process.
QAOps in Continuous Integration/Testing
We integrate the Automation scripts into the CICD pipeline (using
DevOps tools) and leverage the cloud platforms (web and mobile testing
platforms) such as BrowserStack, LambdaTest, Sauce Labs, Kobiton, AWS
Device Farm, etc. to execute the automated tests on a huge variety of
device and browser combinations.
This helps us execute the automated tests early and more frequently
during the sprint cycles, this helps us find the bugs at the early
stages of the testing cycle.
QAOps for Continuous Reporting
With help of the DevOps tools and Test Automation, we publish the
test execution results into different platforms based on the client
requirements –
- Inbox – a most convenient option for many of our clients
- Jira-XRAY – we integrate automation tools with XRAY GraphQL API to
post the results in real-time, so that the entire team will have access
to the test reports any time, anywhere
- PractiTest – we integrate automation tools with PractiTest’s REST
API to post the results in real-time, so that the entire team will have
access to the test reports any time, anywhere
- TestRail,
- qTest, the list goes on …
Test automation along with continuous testing to lead by helping
teams perform repetitive tasks, detect bugs faster and more precisely,
provide continuous feedback loops, ensure test coverage. Therefore,
implementing test automation and QAOps in the QA processes can save a
significant amount of costs, time, and human resources while achieving
the Quality at speed.
QAOps can help detect errors faster and resolve way ahead in the
development process. If the QAOps approach is not followed, it will take
stretched periods between integrations, which makes fixing up these
gaps a longer and an exceedingly stressful task. It will further reduce
constant back-pedaling to identify issues and focus more on building
various features.
