DevOps is gaining popularity as a way to quickly and successfully deploy new software. With all the emphasis on deployment, software quality can sometimes be overlooked. In order to understand how DevOps and software testing mesh, Glenn Buckholz demonstrates a fully implemented continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) stack. After describing the internals of how CI/CD works, Glenn identifies the touch points in the stack that are important for testing organizations. With the now accelerated ability to deliver software, the testing groups need to know how this technology works and what to do with it because swarms of manual testers will not be able to keep up. Glenn demonstrates where and how to use automated testing, how to collect and make sense of the massive amount of test results that can be generated from CI/CD, and how to usefully apply manual testing.
Glenn Buckholz
Coveros
Currently, Glenn Buckholz leads CI and deployment automations efforts at Coveros. Using his fifteen years of industry experience, Glenn brings success to his customers. Beginning his career as a consultant implementing automated test frameworks, he introduced the concept of change management to many, many projects. Glenn then decided to become a part of honest society and settled down at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board as their full time enterprise change manager. After several years, he ventured back into the real world at Coveros, specializing in implementing agile practices, implementing CI, and engineering configuration management instead of simply documenting it.
Speaker Presentations
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 3:00pm
Test Automation
Using DevOps to Improve Software Quality in the Cloud