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Azure DevOps Explained

By : Sjoukje Zaal, Stefano Demiliani, Amit Malik
Book Image

Azure DevOps Explained

By: Sjoukje Zaal, Stefano Demiliani, Amit Malik

Overview of this book

Developing applications for the cloud involves changing development methodologies and procedures. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes are a must today, but are often difficult to implement and adopt. Azure DevOps is a Microsoft Azure cloud service that enhances your application development life cycle and enables DevOps capabilities. Starting with a comprehensive product overview, this book helps you to understand Azure DevOps and apply DevOps techniques to your development projects. You'll find out how to adopt DevOps techniques for your development processes by using built-in Azure DevOps tools. Throughout the course of this book, you'll also discover how to manage a project with the help of project management techniques such as Agile and Scrum, and then progress toward development aspects such as source code management, build pipelines, code testing and artifacts, release pipelines, and GitHub integration. As you learn how to implement DevOps practices, this book will also provide you with real-world examples and scenarios of DevOps adoption. By the end of this DevOps book, you will have learned how to adopt and implement Azure DevOps features in your real-world development processes.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: DevOps Principles and Azure DevOps Project Management
4
Section 2: Source Code and Builds
9
Section 3: Artifacts and Deployments
12
Section 4: Advanced Features of Azure DevOps

Exploratory testing

With exploratory testing, testers are exploring the application to identify and document potential bugs. It focuses on discovery and relies on the guidance of the individual tester to discover defects that are not easily discovered using other types of tests. This type of testing is often referred to as ad hoc testing.

Most quality testing techniques use a structured approach by creating test cases up front (just like we did in our previous demo). Exploratory testing is the opposite of this and is mostly used in scenarios where someone needs to learn about a product or application. They can review the quality of the product from the user perspective and provide feedback quickly. This will also make sure that you don't miss cases that can lead to critical quality failures. The outcome of these ad hoc tests can later be converted into a test plan as well.

Microsoft has released a Test & Feedback extension for exploratory testing. This extension can...