Continuous Testing – CI/CD and Other DevOps Concepts You Should Know

In the last chapter, we explored different ways of designing user interface (UI) test automation frameworks. This is found at the top of the pyramid that was introduced in the previous three chapters. The topic of this chapter might seem as though it lands at the bottom of that pyramid, so people working in testing tend to forget about it. However, it is crucial for any system to have the right number of tests that confirm the quality of the code changes that are being implemented and delivered to the user. Continuous testing (CT) forces the different tests of the pyramid to be run automatically and continuously across all of the deployment phases of the application.

Deciding the approach for this chapter was a tricky task. On the one hand, many concepts could benefit from exact examples. On the other hand, each of the concepts could be written in a different way depending on the tools used. Our advice is...