Best practices to adopt early and continuously automate

Like any other practice, automation requires some basic tenets to be in place for it to be successful. Some of them are as follows:

• Treating automation as any other development work

• Quality engineering

• Coupling of development, automation, and test teams

• Selecting the right solution

Treating automation as any other development work

Since automation becomes the engine to run DevOps seamlessly, it is critical to maintain a similar discipline. Automation should be treated as any other development work. Starting with the framework design to coding standards, to code reviews and unit testing of the code/scripts, the team should be aligned and should sign up to follow the best practices, whatsoever. Any new work would easily mold itself into the implementation framework, reducing the ramping up and initiation efforts. This will have a direct and positive impact on the ROI.

Quality engineering

Start automation as early as possible, thus moving the...