Quality Engineering for Agile and DevOps on the Cloud and Edge

TL;DR

This paper discusses integrating quality engineering into agile and DevOps practices on cloud and edge computing platforms to ensure rapid, reliable software delivery at an enterprise scale.

Contribution

It presents methods for embedding quality engineering into agile and DevOps workflows specifically tailored for cloud and edge environments.

Findings

Enhanced validation sequences improve software quality

Embedding quality engineering accelerates enterprise agile development

Supports rapid, reliable releases in cloud and edge contexts

Abstract

Today's software projects include enhancements, fixes, and patches need to be delivered almost on a daily basis to clients. Weekly and daily releases are pretty much the norm and sit alongside larger feature upgrades and quarterly releases. Software delivery has to be more agile now than ever before. Companies that were, in the past, experimenting with agile based delivery models, are now looking to scale it to enterprise grade. This shifts the need from the ability to build and execute tests rapidly, to using different means, technologies and procedures to provide rapid and insightful validation sequences and tests to establish quality withing the manufacturing cycle. This book addresses the need of effectively embedding quality engineering throughout the agile development cycle thus addressing the need for enterprise scale high quality agile development.