The growing role of QAOps and Why it matters?

The main idea of introducing the QAOps framework is to integrate the continuous testing in DevOps with the Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment(CD) pipeline rather than performing software testing at indefinite intervals.
QAOps framework increases the collaboration between the QA engineers and developers. Therefore, QA engineers must work closely with software developers, operations personnel and everyone involved in the CI/CD pipeline.

Technologies and Tools for QAOps:

Below are the technologies and tools that are used as part of the QAOps process.

Automation Tools: Selenium (with all programming languages: Java, Python, C# and JavaScript, etc.), Provar, Protractor, WebdriverIO, Katalon Studio, Tricentis Tosca, and others.
Performance Testing Tools: JMeter, BlazeMeter, WebLoad, LoadRunner, Tricentis NeoLoad, etc.
Mobile apps Automation Tools: Appium(with all programming languages: Java, Python)
API Testing & Automation Tools: SoapUI, Postman, Runscope, Rest Assured(Java) and Requests(Python), etc.
CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, CircleCI, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps, Atlassian Bamboo, or Travis CI, etc.

Life Cycle of QAOps:

QAOps highly uses the idea of continuous testing, such as CI/CD pipelines, and have the following 3 phases:

1. Trigger: The trigger phase refers to creating correct test cases which is suitable for testing the technicality of the product without wasting time in building unnecessary test cases. The tests cases are designed in such a way that includes all the aspects of the software testing.
2. Execute: The parallel tests which are approved in the trigger phase are executed in this phase. It is performed consecutively with the Trigger phase by executing the tests designed in the previous phase to ensure the quality of the product.
3. Report: The report phase is the final phase in the QAOps process which includes reporting the outcomes of the trigger and execute phase. The entire brief of the process is generated with a detailed description as a final report.

Conclusion‍

Executing or implementing QAOps can give your organization an upper hand over your competitors in the software development industry, and QAOps paves the road to faster software delivery when correctly designed and implemented. It gives a better customer experience without any quality compromises.

References:

1. https://www.techcrackblog.com/2020/09/what-qaops-means-and-why-it-matters-for.html
2. https://www.mstsolutions.com/technical/quality-assurance-ops/
3. https://www.itmagination.com/qa-ops-quality-assurance-in-the-age-of-agile-methodologies
4. https://blog.knoldus.com/not-heard-about-qaops-yet/
5. https://saucelabs.com/blog/operationalizing-quality-assurance-operations-qaops