Testing in the Digital Age: DevOps, ChatOps and Automation to support Testing

Digital is the buzz-phrase of the moment. Most new projects nowadays seem to be part of a 'Digital Transformation'. Transformations in business and IT of any flavour are ambitious and not undertaken lightly. Digital must be important then. But what is it? Id Digital the 'app economy'? Certainly Digital involves mobile, the customer experience, social media and big data more and more. The SMAC acronym (Social, Mobile, and Analytics in the Cloud) summarises this view that the changes most companies want to make to their systems involve all four aspects. Paul offers his own label for this phenomenon: "Software Development at the pace of marketing". Marketers see IT as the vehicle for doing rapid, continuous, relentless experiments in parallel with rapid, continuous, relentless delivery of new features to keep up with the Digital competition. This workshop explores the Digital Revolution and how Continuous Delivery and DevOps are seen as the route to success. But testing could be the bottleneck that prevents success if they don't adapt, and quickly. How will testers survive in this new world? Paul describes, demonstrates and discusses key aspects of DevOps, ChatOps and Automation and identifies the new behaviours and skills required to succeed.