Continuous Testing

Balancing Legacy and Modern Architectures

Michael Eckhoff Senior Vice President
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 Worlds largest taxi company. Worlds largest accommodation provider.

Their value is all digital.

Owns no vehicles. Owns no real estate.

Everyone can be a taxi driver. Everyone can be a landlord.

What happens when you have a legacy platform

that must integrate?
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 81%
of enterprises have adopted or plan to adopt
DevOps.

Source: http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/new-devops-trends-2016-state-cloud-survey, 2016/05/11

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Gartner: Bi-Modal IT (Agile vs Traditional)

Systems
+ of -
Mode 2 Innovation

Governance
Change

Systems
Mode 1 Agile of
Differentiation

Systems
- traditional of +
Record

Gartners Bi-modal IT Approach

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Forrester: Its a Matter of Speed

Weeks,
Days, Systems
+ -
Minutes, of
Seconds Engagement

Governance
Change

Months,
Weeks,
Days

Systems
Months, +
- of
Weeks
Record

Forresters Speed of Deployment Approach

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Polling Question
How do you characterize your development methodology?
Totally Agile
Agile ish
Waterfall ish, but trying
Good old waterfall

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 Continuous Testing is CHANGE.

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When you go Agile, you are willing to do/have all these
Epic/User Story
Speed - Short iterations (Sprints)
Communication - daily meetings (Stand-ups)
5
Upstream

Ownership - Product Owners

Core
essentials Feedback Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
Transparency - Burn-down/Burn-up
Code/Config
Downstream

Continuous Integration (CI)

3 Continuous Testing (CT)
Core Continuous Delivery (CD)
essentials

Delivery
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When you go Agile, you are willing to change
Send staff to a Scrum Training
Bring in a Scrum Master
Provide Agile Coaches

and all of this is just about facilitating the change in how people work
together.

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And when you establish Continuous Testing?

Epic/User Story

5
Upstream

Core
essentials
Continuous Integration (CI)
Code/Config Continuous Testing (CT)
Downstream

3 Automate via UI
Core
essentials

Delivery Continuous Delivery (CD)

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Polling Question
Until today, test automation has been
a success story

so so

a failure

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 18%(official) overall
8%
(official) enterprise
Really ?
test automation test automation

?
degree degree

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Polling Question
Why have test automation efforts failed to meet expectations?

Lack of investment in testing as part of Agile transformation

Test maintenance effort exceeds benefit

Too many technologies to automate end to end

Manual testing is cheaper and easier

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Continuous Testing requires Automation
Today Future

Exploratory Tests

Automated UI Tests
80%
Manual Testing

API Tests
+85%

UI Orchestrated Service Virtualization

20% - key enabler for high automation rates -

Automated Testing API

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 The DevOps Lifecycle

Dev Ops

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The Adjusted DevOps Cycle for Systems of Record

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 Demonstration
Jonathan Morar, Technical Consultant
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 2015 position

Nov 2016

Dec 2015

Aug 2014

Tricentis Tosca Testsuite makes

It should be considered by enterprises
automation easy with model-based
that have struggled to
automation. Via Tosca Testsuite, Tricentis
make test automation work, andJanby those
2011
provides top test automation and
seeking to support
optimization design capabilities, test
agile continuous automation practices.
asset reuse and combined automation.
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400+ Blue Chip Enterprise Customers

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Tricentis: Continuous Testing
Risk: Can you release?
Assess business risk coverage
across your application portfolio
Simulate: Can you test on-demand?
Access complex, complete
test environments anytime
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Data: Are you testing accurately?
Design, generation, and
management of compliant test
data
Automate: Can you scale at speed?
Model-based tests are
reusable and maintainable
without technical expertise
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Thank You for your participation!

Stay in touch!
Host: Michael Eckhoff
Email: m.eckhoff@tricentis.comm
Twitter: @eckhoffmichael

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