STAREAST 2016 - DevOps & Testing
Wednesday, May 4
How HP Enterprise Implemented DevOps Processes
Within large enterprise organizations, DevOps transformations can be daunting and complex if not implemented with innovation, creativity, and the support of leadership. Implementing DevOps best practices can be a challenge, even for those companies that sell software that addresses this particular discipline. Imagine approaching a team that develops quality assurance tools and challenging them to build a developer-centric team for continuous testing and delivery—but you can't use any of your own tools. Join Clint Sprauve and Eran Bachar to learn how Eran created a dev/test team to...
Continuous Integration Testing Techniques to Improve Chef Cookbook Quality
Chef, Puppet, and other tools that implement “infrastructure as code” are great for configuration management and automated deployments, but it is difficult to test these infrastructure scripts before putting them into production. Since infrastructure as code is a relatively new technology, methodologies for its testing are not yet standardized. Glen Buckholz shares a way to solve the two major problems with testing Chef scripts—[1] capturing a start state similar to your...
The Road to DevOps: Data, Environment, and Test Automation
DevOps promotes continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deployment. And anything that breaks this continuity is a potential bottleneck. In many organizations, testing becomes that bottleneck for one or all of the following reasons: unstable test environment, lack of good test data, and manual test processes. Tanya Kravtsov explores why treating test automation as a separate entity from development often results in a DevOps failure. She explores how integrating test automation with product...