DevOps QA benchmarking — why and what?
To understand the current state of maturity of the organization to adapt to DevOps practices is important in ensuring successful implementation of DevOps. A baseline assessment helps to understand the challenges (such as those stated in the preceding section) to be acknowledged and addressed before an organization can embark on the DevOps journey, for those who have already embarked on the journey, such assessment helps to progress further in achieving a higher state of DevOps maturity.
The DevOps QA benchmarking framework assesses the maturity of the testing processes in a DevOps environment and helps us to develop a roadmap for envisioned end state.
Key DevOps practices (as against traditional IT) include the following:
- Use of an integrated Quality approach
- Build quality engineering teams in DevOps
- Implement Behavior-Driven and Test-Driven Development
- Automate, Automate, Automate, to enable a Zero-touch continuous automated testing
- Virtualize test...
