New breed of testers in DevOps
DevOps allows development and infrastructure operations work hand-in-hand and has removed the boundaries of development having to complete a full life cycle for the changes to be deployed. The DevOps approach encourages the developers to understand the testers' job and testers to understand the developer's job. So, what does DevOps have in store for testing careers? Would testers seize to exist?
Testers have evolved over different eras and have moved away from manual black box testing to automation. DevOps is yet another shift that testers are coming to grapple with. Testers would adapt to this shift and fit in. The new testing skills would involve not only test automation, but also unit testing, test-driven development, Infrastructure Automation, and API testing as a part of DevOps. So it is going to be an enriching and exciting career ahead for testers.
Testers need to extend their automation skills into Infrastructure automation for application...