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Testing Practitioner Handbook

By : Renu Rajani
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Testing Practitioner Handbook

By: Renu Rajani

Overview of this book

The book is based on the author`s experience in leading and transforming large test engagements and architecting solutions for customer testing requirements/bids/problem areas. It targets the testing practitioner population and provides them with a single go-to place to find perspectives, practices, trends, tools, and solutions to test applications as they face the evolving digital world. This book is divided into five parts where each part explores different aspects of testing in the real world. The first module explains the various testing engagement models. You will then learn how to efficiently test code in different life cycles. The book discusses the different aspects of Quality Analysis consideration while testing social media, mobile, analytics, and the Cloud. In the last module, you will learn about futuristic technologies to test software. By the end of the book, you will understand the latest business and IT trends in digital transformation and learn the best practices to adopt for business assurance.
Table of Contents (56 chapters)
Testing Practitioner Handbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. Does the Rise of DevOps Undermine Agile?

The question may come to you; can agile survive as DevOps becomes more ubiquitous? agile methods in software development have been practiced over the last two decades. The last 4-5 years have, in addition, seen the rise of DevOps methods. There have been questions on whether DevOps replaces agile. Agile is a philosophy that found acceptance as being against the waterfall model, as organizations increasingly struggled to match the right level of quality versus speed. While agile is often a way of thinking prevalent in anything that a company does with speed, here we limit ourselves to the uses of agile in IT.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Agile, DevOps, and the respective drivers for the use of each

  • Agile is about speed and DevOps removes boundaries between development, QA, and operations

  • Compare and contrast agile and DevOps

We will conclude the debate with the fact that agile and DevOps complement each other and are not...