Quality Assurance as a DevOps Touchstone

Explore a comprehensive conference talk on integrating Quality Assurance into DevOps practices. Delve into the importance of early QA involvement, addressing challenges, and implementing quality metrics. Learn about reliability, test smells, quality gates, and maintainability in DevOps environments. Discover strategies for customer-focused testing, including persona-based approaches and testing beyond functionality. Gain insights on tracking progress, conducting postmortems, and utilizing dashboards for visualization. Through a structured agenda covering various aspects of QA in DevOps, acquire valuable knowledge to enhance software quality and streamline development processes.

intro
preamble
agenda
qa's place in devops
early qa involvement
challenges
quality metrics
time is precious
reliability
test smells
quality gates
maintainability
fasten and ease mainenance: remove duplication
escaped bugs
customer focus
the mindset: test the unexpected
test design techniques
walk in user's shoes: persona based testing
not only functionality
keep on track
listen to bugs - postmortems
visualize - use dashboard
summary
thank you