Testing Insights

Continuous Testing in DevOps is a software testing type that involves testing the software at every stage of the software development life cycle.

As the term suggests this simply refers to product management practices applied specifically to the development of digital services.

A key recommendation is to encourage the “shifting left” of testing practices, perform them earlier, and be an integral part of the development process.

2i can help organisations establish a DevOps Centre of Excellence, a central structure that can facilitate the adoption of industry best practices.

Having infrastructure as code would allow the developers or team to test and validate the code before the actual deployment.

There are four Flow Metrics that measure how value flows through a product's value stream. They are calculated on four Flow Items - units of work that matter to a business: features, defects, debt, and risk.

Successfully embracing a new DevOps paradigm will require a transformation of team and workflow patterns as well as technologies.

As organisations move to adopting the Cloud, software testing continues to be a component part essential to its success.

It’s not just scalability that makes microservices such a powerful approach for enterprise organizations, it also enables faster development of new software too.

A core capability underpinning the shift to Cloud Native DevOps is treating 'Infrastructure as Code' (IaC).

Following on from our introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), we can zoom in on a detailed review of the role of software testing within this framework.

Implementing DevOps for one team is a relatively straight forward exercise, but for enterprise organisations, they face a much larger magnitude of complexity.

The primary reason why test automation frameworks fail is due to a poorly designed architecture, and design patterns can address this and common testing issues, such as those implementing the work lacking programming skills and familiarity with test automation.

2i offers an Automation Maturity Review, an assessment that follows DevOps Flow value stream mapping, so that we can identify the optimal target areas for automation.

Successfully building and deploying API-integrated apps comes with a number of challenges that 2i expertise and methodology can help address.

'Low Code' development is a new trend exploding into the IT market. Forecast to raise £500m of investment in 2020 alone it is a sector that will have a massive impact on how software is developed.

Testing is the key part of the equation when it comes to discovering and understanding risk within a project. An untested component is an unknown and therefore cannot be released with confidence.

Here are some of the key principles of ‘Flow’ and the role of testing and quality assurance practices required to enable ‘Flow’.

In this case study piece, Adam Pettman breaks down how testing as an integral and pivotal part of the DevOps process can sometimes be forgotten about and in some cases lead to major incidents and how they should be implemented with more care and diligence by organisations that wish to launch their products more smoothly.

The new world of DevOps is transforming how software is developed, not just in terms of the technologies and tools used, but more importantly in terms of how teams are organised and managed.

Business risk lies within the product that organisations deliver and, if not managed correctly, may lead to loss of revenue, impact brand value and reduce productivity to market.

Effective implementation of Risk Based Testing is only possible within Risk Based Delivery. The whole team must be aligned to the business outcomes being delivered.

This blog post explains what Operational Risk is, the consequences this can have on your organisation if poorly managed and how we help our clients avoid negative consequences or outcomes through AssureRMF™.

As your organisation looks to increasingly leverage DevOps approaches and automation to enable Digital delivery at pace, your risk position needs to be front and centre of every stage of your delivery pipeline.