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Continuous Testing is a software testing approach that evaluates products early and often throughout the Continuous Delivery process using automated tests for immediate feedback. It offers numerous benefits, including faster error detection, improved release rates, and enhanced collaboration among teams, but also presents challenges such as the need for cultural shifts and updated testing strategies. Key components include test automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery, all of which should be implemented at every stage of the CI/CD pipeline for optimal results.

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Continuous Testing is a software testing approach that evaluates products early and often throughout the Continuous Delivery process using automated tests for immediate feedback. It offers numerous benefits, including faster error detection, improved release rates, and enhanced collaboration among teams, but also presents challenges such as the need for cultural shifts and updated testing strategies. Key components include test automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery, all of which should be implemented at every stage of the CI/CD pipeline for optimal results.

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22CD305-SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

UNIT IV-TESTING

TOPIC: CONTINUOUS TESTING

What is Continuous Testing?


Continuous Testing is a software testing type in which the product is evaluated
early, often, and throughout the entire Continuous Delivery (CD) process.
Continuous testing uses automated tests to ensure teams receive immediate
feedback to quickly mitigate as many risks as possible throughout the software
development lifecycle. Moreover, team members are able to continuously learn
about their product and what can be done to increase quality and reliability.
Incorporating continuous testing into your organization is not a simple procedure,
however, as you need to build out a test strategy to ensure a smooth transition.
You also asked why is it so valuable? Imagine this: Traditionally, testing software
is only done after code is written and sent to the Quality Assurance department to
be independently tested. After bugs are found, the code is then sent back to
developers to be fixed. This testing model is relatively functional. However, it is
risky, disrupted, and time-consuming. Instead, businesses nowadays require fast
delivery of high-quality products.
But what if there was a different avenue for testing? A faster and more efficient
way that eliminated bottlenecking between different departments?
That is where continuous testing becomes valuable. Testing code directly after
submitting it to the repository helps detect bugs before any additional code is
written.
Benefits of Continuous Testing
● Find errors: Ensure as many errors are found before being released to
production
● Test early and often: Tested throughout the development, delivery,
testing, and deployment cycles
● Accelerate testing: Run parallel performance tests to increase testing
execution speed
● Earn customer loyalty: Accomplish continuous improvement and
quality
● Automation: Automate your test cases to decrease time spent testing
● Increase release rate: Speed up delivery to production and release
faster
● Reduce business risks: Assess potential problems before they become
an actual problem
● DevOps: Incorporates into your DevOps processes smoothly
● Communication transparency: Eliminate silos between the
development, testing, and operations teams
● Available testing tools: Available tools that support continuous testing
to make the testing process easier, faster, and more reliable

Main Challenges of Continuous Testing


While continuous testing has a myriad of key benefits, there are several challenges
that software development teams must take into consideration:
● Adjust to DevOps: Professionals don’t process the right tools and
training for continuous testing within Agile and DevOps environments
● Change in culture: Cultural shifts among your development and testing
teams may happen if traditional processes are maintained
● Update testing strategy: Maintaining only traditional testing methods
and test data management that is not clearly defined keeps continuous
testing from reaching its full potential
● Code integration: Developers who don’t integration their code on a
regular basis (recommended several times daily) create defect issues
with duplicated coding efforts and non-compatible code
● Test environments: Make sure your test environments work within your
code repository base for seamless testing of the newest available code
● Production environments: Also, make sure your production
environments reflect the test environment to ensure every area was
properly tested

Key Components of Continuous Testing


Let’s break down the key components of continuous testing and determine if it
would work for your organization.

Test Automation

Manual testing is laborious and time-intensive. Automation gives time back to


your engineers to actually fix the bugs found during testing. Now, not everything
should be automated. Exploratory testing does play a crucial role to creatively find
ways to test. And those test scenarios found through exploratory testing? Automate
them!
Continuous testing cannot be done without test automation. The best part about test
automation is the quick feedback the team receives. Continuous testing allows
early and often feedback so that changes can be made far before releasing features
to the market.
Do you see the connection? The ideal aspect of continuous testing is to have it
triggered and executed without human intervention. This is the ultimate goal of
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

Continuous Integration

The CI/CD pipeline is an essential part of continuous testing. Let’s talk about
continuous integration (CI). This practice gathers code from developers working
on one project and placing it into a code repository. Integrating different
developer’s code into one project can generate a lot of bugs. This is where
continuous testing comes into play. Automating your test executions each time the
code is integrated will allow you to find bugs as early as possible and fix them
faster. Find bugs before they’re released to production and you can save yourself a
lot of time, money, and effort to fix at a later date.

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery (CD) can often be confused with continuous deployment. A


great way to think about the difference is continuous delivery is having any code
version ready to deploy to production. Both practices require you to work on small,
frequent changes. But we believe continuous delivery is an integral part of
continuous testing because you should test code before it is deployed. Having code
ready to go without thoroughly testing it is a waste of resources and should be
acted upon immediately. Continuously test your code!

How to Perform Continuous Testing


Now that you know what continuous testing is, let’s talk about how you use it.
Continuous testing should be implemented at every stage of your CI/CD pipeline.
You can set up test suites at every point code changes, merges, or releases. That
way, you can run tests at a specific point rather than every test at once. This will
help reduce time and effort on testing but still reap quality rewards.
Continuous testing works best by using the most recent build in an isolated
environment. Containerization is a great method to help with replicating code
outside of the main code repository.
To accelerate the continuous testing efforts, QA teams can leverage popular
continuous testing tools available on the market. Below is a list for you to have a
quick look at the top tools out there.

Continuous Testing Tools for Agile Teams


Katalon Studio
Katalon Studio is built on top of Selenium. This tool offers a comprehensive
platform to perform automated testing for Web UI, API, desktop and mobile.
Travis CI
Travis CI is a continuous testing tool hosted on GitHub offering hosted and
on-premise variants.
Selenium
Selenium is an open-source software testing tool. It supports most mainstream
browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. Selenium
WebDriver is used to automate web application testing.
Jenkins
Jenkins is a continuous integration tool using Java language and is configurable via
both GUI interface and console commands.

Conclusion
Continuous testing is beneficial in so many ways, but it can also be very
challenging. Make sure you have a solid plan in place before incorporating this
testing procedure into your organization.

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