Exploring a DevOps Transformation Like a Tester
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Describes a tester’s hands-on DevOps exploration that builds and validates concrete pipelines rather than repeating buzzwords: visualized CI/CD pipelines with explicit pre-deploy and post-deploy stages, adds static analysis (SonarQube), unit/integration/contract/API tests, and a nightly mini-regression and smoke tests cadence, automating with Jenkins and Selenium+Cucumber. Finds manual exploratory testing still fits, pipeline feedback points bugs to specific builds, and quality improves with fewer customer-reported defects after the pipeline and test reshaping.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 0:24My story
- 0:36Personal challenges
- 1:00How do you adapt
- 1:18I was in a similar situation
- 1:37We embraced the change
- 1:54Agile testing
- 2:06New challenge
- 2:26I try to find the solution
- 2:42I was scared
- 2:52Why am I scared
- 3:24Trying a solution
- 3:37Exploring
- 4:01Why DevOps
- 4:23Microservices Architecture
- 4:48Need for Speed
- 5:08New shiny bus
- 5:18What is DevOps
- 5:37DevOps
- 5:52Continuous Integration
- 6:38Questions
- 7:32Silos
- 8:48Being too technical
- 10:08Visualization
- 10:26Initial Pipeline
- 10:54What goes in
- 11:21Manual exploratory testing
- 12:08Post deploy pipeline
- 12:30Exploring what was new for me
- 13:02Testing different tools
- 13:26Proofofconcept
- 13:53Stages of DevOps
- 14:17Understanding DevOps
- 14:57Mini Regression Stage
- 15:56Regression Test Weight
- 16:53No exploratory testing
- 17:17Exploratory testing
- 18:08Future vision
- 18:44Key takeaways
- 21:10Thank you
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