DevOps Best Practices To Ensure Successful Testing

Introduction

DevOps is best defined as a business effort to improve communication and collaboration between development and operations teams, in order to increase software deployment quality and speed. There are profound implications for teams and the organizations they work for with this new way of working. From 2020 to 2027, the global DevOps market is expected to grow at a healthy CAGR of 22.9%. The reason this software development and delivery model has such a bright future is that it has already achieved impressive results for CTOs worldwide. Using DevOps, development and operations teams will no longer be siloed in order to enhance their collaboration. DevOps provides many business and technological advantages. For example, it can shorten development cycles, increase deployment speed, reduce time to market, and more. However, implementing DevOps requires an organizational-wide cultural shift. For a smooth transition to DevOps over time, here are some tips and principles you can follow. The true value of DevOps and testing Professionals lies in identifying issues in production & pre-production to reduce IT downtime, increase business revenue, and uncover insights that lead to a greater customer experience. Because in the end, that is how your customers & users remember you, by their online experience. Derive everyday value from your application’s monitoring via Cavisson’s unified APM solution.
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Mastering Application Load Management by Performance Engineering

Mastering Application Load Management by Performance Engineering

Introduction

It is impossible to know how your system will perform when faced with expected or unexpected demands without comprehensive performance testing, which includes both load and stress testing. The best way to understand how components of a system behave under a given situation is to ensure an exhaustive test coverage covering all aspects of application performance under varying loads and scenarios is designed to test your applications thoroughly.

To establish the benchmark behavior of your application ecosystem, you must test the performance of your application and its underlying dependencies and infrastructure. In performance testing, you aim to meet or exceed a number of industry-defined benchmarks.

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