Holistic Testing for Continuous Delivery: for a quality DevOps culture (2 days)

content & syllabus

1: Introduction, and early testing

• Quality-focused DevOps culture

• Holistic Testing model

• Discovery and planning

o Evaluating and mitigating risks

o Prioritizing quality attributes

• Understanding what to build

o Guiding development with business-facing tests (ATDD, BDD)

o Techniques to build shared understanding

o Choosing data & events for monitoring & observability

2: Deploy 

• Continuous integration

• Continuous delivery / deployment

• Deployment pipelines – integrating testing activities

• Risk-based automation

• Testing infrastructure-as-code

• Measuring feedback loops

3: Release

• Release strategies to build confidence

• Testing in production – the safe way

4: Observe

• Service levels

• Monitor and alert for production issues

• Making a system observable

• Data to guide continuous improvement

5: Learn

• Learning from production usage

• Steps to achieve continuous delivery goals

• Designing experiments to overcome obstacles

Takeaways include:

• Techniques to get the whole team engaged in implementing continuous integration and

continuous delivery (CD)

• Applying the Holistic Testing continuous loop model to allow testing to “keep up” with continuous delivery

• Learning the language of DevOps practices, and join the conversations to shape CD

• Understanding deployment pipelines

• Strategies for test automation in continuous delivery

• Planning and including all necessary testing activities in CD

Participants learn from trainers’ real-life experiences, and practice basic techniques hands-on. Course activities include, but are not limited to:

• Planning for and understanding risks and applying mitigation strategies

• Visualizing the deployment workflow and identifying ways to shorten feedback cycles

• Using a test suite canvas to plan effective automated test suites

• Evaluating and choosing strategies for safe production releases

• Testing in production – the safe way

• Planning for and visualizing production usage data to guide improvement

• Practice designing experiments to help teams overcome obstacles

Note: The course does not teach specific tools, although examples are provided to help participants understand their purpose and usage.

target group

Anyone working in or with a product delivery team

that include business analysts, testers, programmers, managers, operations specialists and more.

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