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Practical DevOps

By : joakim verona
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Practical DevOps

By: joakim verona

Overview of this book

DevOps is a practical field that focuses on delivering business value as efficiently as possible. DevOps encompasses all the flows from code through testing environments to production environments. It stresses the cooperation between different roles, and how they can work together more closely, as the roots of the word imply—Development and Operations. After a quick refresher to DevOps and continuous delivery, we quickly move on to looking at how DevOps affects architecture. You'll create a sample enterprise Java application that you’ll continue to work with through the remaining chapters. Following this, we explore various code storage and build server options. You will then learn how to perform code testing with a few tools and deploy your test successfully. Next, you will learn how to monitor code for any anomalies and make sure it’s running properly. Finally, you will discover how to handle logs and keep track of the issues that affect processes
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Practical DevOps
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Pros and cons with test automation


When you talk with people, most are enthusiastic about the prospect of test automation. Imagine all the benefits that await us with it:

  • Higher software quality

  • Higher confidence that the software releases we make will work as intended

  • Less of the monotonous tedium of laborious manual testing.

All very good and desirable things!

In practice, though, if you spend time with different organizations with complex multi-tiered products, you will notice people talking about test automation, but you will also notice a suspicious absence of test automation in practice. Why is that?

If you just compile programs and deploy them once they pass compilation, you will likely be in for a bad experience. Software testing is completely necessary for a program to work reliably in the real world. Manual testing is too slow to achieve Continuous Delivery. So, we need test automation to succeed with Continuous Delivery. Therefore, let's further investigate the problem areas surrounding...