{"id":10345,"date":"2021-10-06T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T10:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mozark.ai\/?p=10345"},"modified":"2021-10-06T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T10:22:16","slug":"why-is-testing-is-the-most-critical-cog-in-your-devops-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mozark.ai\/why-is-testing-is-the-most-critical-cog-in-your-devops-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is testing is the most critical cog in your DevOps wheel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"slider-wrapper relative hide-for-medium\" id=\"slider-1053970850\" >\n    <div class=\"slider slider-nav-circle slider-nav-large slider-nav-light slider-style-normal\"\n        data-flickity-options='{\n            \"cellAlign\": \"center\",\n            \"imagesLoaded\": true,\n            \"lazyLoad\": 1,\n            \"freeScroll\": false,\n            \"wrapAround\": true,\n            \"autoPlay\": 6000,\n            \"pauseAutoPlayOnHover\" : true,\n            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large centered\"><\/div>\n\n     <style scope=\"scope\">\n             <\/style>\n<\/div><!-- .ux-slider-wrapper -->\n\n\n<div class=\"row row-large\"  id=\"row-1562426745\">\n<div class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  ><div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n<p>For better or worse, we live in an era of instant gratification as customers don\u2019t take too kindly to enterprises that make them\u00a0<strong>wait for even days to respond to their requests<\/strong>. Fortunately, the digital age has also enabled enterprises to make their products far more responsive to customer feedback, and as a result, release cycles of digital products such as mobile apps are rapidly reducing.<\/p>\n<p>My colleague and partner in crime, Kartik Raja, talked about this in his previous post, where he mentioned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/why-my-bank-unaware-its-digital-payment-issues-when-even-kartik-raja\/?trackingId=ZHIGnfee35CHNxPEIm%2FHrg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how banks are still unaware of their failures when digitally savvy companies like Netflix are<\/a>! Enterprises such as banks need to figure out how to take responsibility for their customers\u2019 entire digital journey or run the risk of being left behind by more nimble competitors.<\/p>\n<p>However, haste cannot lead to waste, and the\u00a0<strong>decrease in release cycles cannot come at the cost of product quality<\/strong>. Once you lose a customer, it\u2019s hard to get them back. Hence, the problem that enterprises face today is &#8211; putting in place a robust release process\/infrastructure, which does not trade-off quality with speed. And that is how the concept of DevOps has gained so much traction.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally though, DevOps has mainly focused on release automation and monitoring. The primary problems that DevOps has attempted to solve are:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>a) how do I make the build cycle shorter?<\/p>\n<p>b) how do I build better monitoring capabilities so that I can detect problems quicker?<\/p>\n<p>In the process, we may have missed the single most critical step, which ensures a great product gets released in a short time. That step is testing. Therefore,\u00a0<strong>integrating a strong testing cycle within DevOps is an absolute must<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for enterprises to invest in\u00a0<strong>a robust testing infrastructure<\/strong>\u00a0that enables them to test their product on a wide variety of devices, networks, and locations. Testing should not be about simulating a user environment but setting up an infrastructure that enables the tester to run their test cases in real user environments. And testing in a real user environment is nothing but\u00a0<strong>synthetic monitoring<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>By establishing a testing infrastructure that enables not only functional and non-functional testing but also synthetic experience monitoring, enterprises can ensure great product quality and save significant costs otherwise involved in setting up expensive post-release monitoring tools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A plethora of 3rd party integrations within the app and the need to make it cross-device, personalized, and secure has rendered traditional monitoring methods insufficient at providing the needed insights.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional methods often focus on just app performance and not 3rd party components. They identify issues post-release by when it might be too late. And they require intrusive SDK integrations, which might not be in line with data privacy requirements.<\/p>\n<p>It is thus time for enterprises to design\u00a0<strong>a robust testing infrastructure right when they are setting up their DevOps process and infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"row align-middle\"  id=\"row-1330919745\">\n<div class=\"col blog-author-heading medium-3 small-12 large-3\"  ><div class=\"col-inner text-left\"  >\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\">Written By<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n<\/style>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row align-middle\"  id=\"row-1204401754\">\n<div class=\"col medium-2 small-12 large-2\"  ><div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover blog-author-photo x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_2033356270\">\n\t\t<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/chandrasekar-ramamoorthy-8875775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner 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