From the course: Tech on the Go: Building a Software Test Department

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Testing as part of a CI/CD pipeline

Testing as part of a CI/CD pipeline

- [Instructor] Testing as part of a CI/CD pipeline. In modern software development, DevOps is a methodology that combines software development or dev with IT operations, ops. DevOps intends to shorten the application development cycle and provide high quality software. How is the software quality validated in a DevOps process? With test automation. How does test automation fit within DevOps? One of the first places to look is the technique of continuous integration. Continuous integration is a technique for continually executing tasks on your code. When code is merged into a central repository like pushing a change to a code versioning system, automated builds can run and tests can be executed. For example, unit tests and coverage reports, linting tasks to check for suspicious code, and functional testing can be run automatically. The result can be used to report problems immediately to an engineer, warning about…

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