Best Practices for DevOps Testing
Explore best practices for DevOps testing focusing on test automation within CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeBuild. Understand how to define requirements, adopt shift-left testing, select effective tools, monitor test performance metrics, and maintain accurate test documentation to improve software quality and delivery speed.
Automation is a critical component of a successful DevOps deployment. It’s not enough to automate the various phases and have one phase successfully trigger the next one. In fact, we need to implement automation even inside a phase.
Test automation
As developers check in the code, the build must be triggered automatically and should run all the unit tests as part of build execution. The build must fail if any of the unit test cases fail.
The essential prerequisite of automating a test is a well-defined customer requirement. With vaguely defined requirements, it’s tough for developers to determine which test cases must pass and which must fail.
Many organizations usually face a common issue of resistance to change, mainly when the developers are asked to write test cases before developing the code. Incorporating the TDD ...