The ‘Missing Link’ of Continuous Delivery Process

In today’s agile world, almost 100% of the organizations are moving into Continuous Delivery. This concept of Continuous Delivery, which simplifies the release of software to production, or into the hands of users, supports agile practices and can cut the time-to-release of applications from several months/weeks to just a few hours.

 Often, many organizations compromise on the quality when a project is close to completion, when they address software quality properties such as robustness, extensibility and maintainability. This means most of the organizations are still open in realizing the full potential of Continuous Delivery Process.

Without Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery is impossible. CI methodologies are already very popular, with many IT organizations incorporating it into their daily working practices. CI involves integrating code into a shared repository several times a day followed by verification of each check-in with an automated build. This enables us to detect, locate and solve errors easily - and at a fraction of the cost.

 Hard on the heels of Continuous Integration came Continuous Deployment - Automatically deploy the product into production whenever it passes QA, ensuring your releases go to market as quickly as possible.

But, till date, there’s been a vital piece missing. Now it is the time to discuss about the next paradigm changing technology, Continuous Testing.

  Continuous Testing: Continuous Delivery’s Missing Link

 What is Continuous Testing?

 Continuous testing is the process of executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to obtain feedback on the business risks associated with a software release candidate as rapidly as possible. It evolves and extends test automation to address the increased complexity and pace of modern application development and delivery.

 Benefits of Continuous Testing:

•     Faster release cycles
•     Reduced risk 

Continuous Testing is only going to become more essential as time goes on and technology continues to evolve. Continuous testing is the need of the hour. However, in today’s world, more than 80% of software testing is done manually. Source (Tricentis projects)

Tricentis Tosca is well placed in this situation which enables organizations to achieve continuous testing and is the gravity center (hub) of Agile downstream.

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