Programmez!, France: Cognizant’s Vice President Of Quality Engineering and Assurance Says DevOps is not About Discarding Everything and Starting from Scratch

“There is a popular myth that DevOps is about discarding everything that has been built so far and starting from scratch. That is not the case,” says Andreas Golze. “However, the adoption of DevOps does demand a certain cultural shift with people, process and technology in the line of development, testing and operations.” Excerpts:

“One of the challenges faced by enterprises, especially the large ones, is to improve communication and collaboration between IT and business teams. DevOps emphasizes ‘people and culture’, and seeks to improve collaboration between operations and development teams by changing IT culture, focusing on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of lean and agile practices.

DevOps addresses the existence of traditionally siloed team structures that are not able to scale to meet the varied needs of modern enterprises. It also addresses the philosophical disconnect between development, testing and operations teams, which results in poor communication, collaboration and integration. Moreover, it accelerates the deployment of digital technologies.

DevOps implementations use technology, especially automation tools that can make use of an increasingly programmable and dynamic infrastructure from a lifecycle perspective.

IT organizations are now embracing DevOps practices to fasten the frequent software releases into software production. This accelerates the time-to-market for new products and services and improves the overall customer experience.

Testing teams play a key role in overcoming the challenges of transitioning to DevOps by orchestrating a CT (continuous testing) infrastructure and creating an early feedback loop.

By successfully implementing CT as a first step, the dots of DevOps can be connected with development and operations to create automated build deployments, code coverage analysis, production monitoring and on-demand environment provisioning.”

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