Continuous Testing

From phase model to continuous testing across the entire lifecycle

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Ensure quality, identify risks early

In the traditional software development process, “testing” is planned, prepared, executed, and evaluated as a separate phase. Continuous testing, on the other hand, accompanies the entire development process with the goal of identifying and minimizing risks as early as possible.

We have supported companies in the successful implementation of Continuous Testing and all relevant CI/CD practices.

Key features of Continuous Testing:

Continuous Testing & Continuous Integration (CI)

In the traditional software development process, “testing” is planned, prepared, executed, and evaluated as a separate phase. Continuous testing, on the other hand, accompanies the entire development process with the goal of identifying and minimizing risks as early as possible.

Advantages:​

Quality assurance measures in CI include:

Instead of focusing solely on high code coverage, Objentis recommends workshops, training, and pair programming to improve the quality of unit tests.

 

Typical signs of optimization potential:

Continuous Testing & Continuous Delivery (CD)

Continuous Delivery goes beyond CI:

Typical stages of a Continuous Delivery pipeline:

Development

Testing of individual artifacts, integration with infrastructure

System Test

Automated testing within system boundaries, mocking of external systems

System Integration Test

End-to-end tests with connected systems

User Acceptance Test

Production-like environment with manual and automated acceptance tests, and possibly performance tests.

Continuous Testing & Continuous Deployment (CDP)

With Continuous Deployment, every approved change is automatically rolled out to production – with minimal time-to-market and direct customer feedback.

 

Important testing measures for Continuous Deployment:

Careful test planning along the CI/CD pipeline ensures that only a few errors are delivered into production, and these can be quickly fixed thanks to small increments.

Advantages:

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Results you can rely on, with Objentis Consulting