Success will not come on a silver platter unless corporations set the foundation for it. In the aggressive competition of grabbing opportunities in the market that defines the business environment today, only the strong and forward thinking ones will survive. Businesses encompass a myriad of IT solutions that ensure a timely product delivery to consumers and streamlining activities. However, there are more effective ways to do this. The Devops Automation subject is addressed to C level managers who are at the top of finance and healthcare to name a few.

It further requires enterprises to facilitate constant communication and collaboration among programmers, testers, and operation staff. The practitioners further need to use specialized tools to unify development, QA, and operations smoothly. At the same time, an enterprise also has to focus specifically on implementing it testing to evaluate the quality of the software from the planning phase to deployment phase of the project. Hence, each enterprise has to focus on many factors to implement testing efficiently.

Test Automation- While implementing this, the practitioner needs to ensure that all testing activities are aligned to a single cycle. The organization must explore ways to automate all the test cases and achieve 100% test coverage. It needs to automate both pre-testing and post-testing activities to facilitate continuous integration and delivery. Hence, the enterprise needs to invest in robust software testing frameworks and tools to automate the entire testing process and run the tests repeatedly throughout the DevOps cycle.

It necessitates the need for a cultural shift among the stakeholders to work for a common goal and encourages Dev and Ops to function as a single team focused on delivering value across the IT value chain. Thus enterprises should mark a cultural shift in their style of functioning.

Strategic Role of QA in DevOps: Under the mode, both developers and testers play equally important role and typically the Quality Analyst (QA) ties together Dev and Ops teams. It further enables teams to collaborate to have the software and applications up and running. Both the developer and the tester work in close coordination in its environment. But it has been observed that organizations without a strong and definite QA and testing strategy in faces troubles in meeting their goals for an accelerated speed of delivery.

Docker: This is a widely-acclaimed container technology that ensures that a piece of software runs reliably in different computing environments. Put simply; a container is a compilation of an application, its dependencies, libraries, and other configuration files needed for its smooth functioning. It ensures that your application runs without any hiccups even when transferred to a computing environment different from its home environment.

DevOps Cycle: Under a mature cycle, the process seen is a build, release and operate phases. However, for a typical IT organization, the scope of its cycle spans four functional areas such as a. Continuous integration and testing, b. Continuous delivery and deployment, c. Continuous operations, and d. Continuous assessments.

Understand the Important Patterns: There are basically four areas with respect to its patterns such as Extend development into production, Create production feedback into development, Embed development into IT operations and lastly Embed IT operations into development. All these patterns are useful as they ensure production readiness of the code and environment. Further, helps to create re-usable user stories for the IT operations and even defines the non-functional requirements that can be used across the process.