Barriers to achieving continuous testing

Consumers are a significant driving force in the market and their demand for a better technology keeps getting increased exponentially with high usage across all sectors. In order to match pace with the demand and deliver a high quality product, organizations are gravitating more towards Agile and DevOps. Faster time to market of a high quality product is the baseline goal for DevOps. Release cycles have become considerably shorter and it further calls for a well-rounded and comprehensive testing strategy, in order to ensure that a high quality product is delivered to the end user, within a stipulated time frame.

Continuous Testing is a process of evaluating software quality by testing it at every stage of software development. It adds more value to the CI/CD process by testing early and testing often.

What makes Continuous testing the secret ingredient to the recipe of a quality product?

Do read more about “Importance of CT in CI/CD” on our website by clicking here.

What is impeding Continuous testing in the day to day QA process?

It is worth noting that while continuous testing seems like a difficult task, it is not impossible to achieve. 

Some of the most common roadblocks encountered in continuous testing are mentioned below.

Testing framework setup difficulties

The efforts involved in identifying the right tool and framework which can integrate without any hiccups in the current DevOps pipeline is a daunting and time consuming task. And then there is the cost factor which puts the whole idea on the backburner.

Webomates’ CI/CD API can be easily embedded in customers’ application CI/CD pipeline by integrating seamlessly with Jenkins or CircleCI . We provide expertise, tools and services to achieve in-sprint shift left testing aiding the developers in testing as early as possible. This increases overall test velocity.

Inadequate and inefficient Automation

Key to efficient testing is smart test automation. Test cases need to be created/modified to match the sprint. The whole purpose of continuous testing gets defeated if test cases are not updated to reflect changes and adhere to the timeline too.

Webomates has a unique way of handling this situation. 

Our product is fully configurable to cater to the needs of the development and test team. We provide regression testing of 24 hours for FULL services, 8 hours of Overnight services and quick Smoke regression which gets completed within 15 minutes to maximum 1 hour. 

Any defect encountered is reported, test case is modified and re-executed, without affecting testing of other modules. 

Reach out to us at info@webomates.com to know more about the test case healing process.

Webomates’ AI Defect Predictor further helps by analyzing and predicting possible defects(This has been covered in next section)

Mediocre root cause analysis

Finding and reporting defects is comparatively easier than actually finding the root cause of the failure. There could be a number of reasons for a test failure, a valid bug, a false failure, an oversight perhaps. But with a looming deadline, and resource crunch, the root cause analysis may get bungled up.

Webomates has a patented AI defect predictor which helps in comprehensive root cause analysis of failures. AI defect predictor is a human assisted machine learning which aids in creation, execution and analysis of test cases.

A snapshot of a run is shown below:

Scenario: Test case fails due to locator change.

1. The test case is added in the LOCATOR_CHANGED category in the defect predictor.
2. Analysis part of defect predictor contains system Recommendation, Locator information because of which the test cases failed and the % of failed test cases with the same locator.
3. The user can re-run the test case by providing a new locator in the input box.

Another sample run is:

Scenario: The test case is failed due to some script error(java code error).

1. The test case falls in SCRIPT_ERROR category in the defect predictor.
2. Analysis part on defect predictor contains system Recommendation, exception for the test case failure.
3. The user can re-run the test case by adding it to re-run

Conclusion

Continuous testing is a powerful technique with a string of benefits, but it comes with its own challenges. Zeroing in on the right service provider can accelerate your whole development and testing cycle by leaps and bounds.

Webomates has resources and expertise to help you in the required setup for Continuous testing. We offer regression testing as a service that is a combination of test cases based on testing and exploratory testing. Test cases based testing establishes a baseline and uses a multi-execution channel approach, to reach true pass / true fail, using AI Automation, automation, manual, and crowdsourcing. Exploratory testing expands the scope of the test to take the quality to the next level. Service is guaranteed to do both and even covers updating test cases of modified features during execution in 24 hours.

At Webomates, we work relentlessly to evolve our platform and processes in order to provide guaranteed execution, which takes testing experience to an entirely different level, thus ensuring a higher degree of customer satisfaction. If you are interested in learning more about Webomates’ CQ service please click here and schedule a demo, or reach out to us at info@webomates.com. 

Tags: CI/CD, Continous Testing, DevOps, Regression Testing