DevOps with Continuous Testing Architecture and Its Metrics Model

The advent of DevOps is to take full advantage of iterative model of development, bring agility in software development life cycle and achieve time to market goal. However, testing becomes roadblock and reduces the rate of speed. Hence, there is a critical need to strategize testing process and align it to continuous planning, continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous monitoring, and feedback goals of DevOps practice. There is a vital difference between test automation and continuous testing. The former is subset of latter. Continuous testing identifies integration issues much earlier in the life cycle; makes defect resolution cheaper, faster; and frees tester's precious time for exploratory testing and value-added test activities. This paper conducts literature survey on various strategies applied for continuous testing and proposes a continuous testing architecture for better implementation. It also presents the conceptual design of few important testing metrics for successful implementation of continuous testing function in the context of DevOps.