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Explore the impact of digital disruption on testing, continuous testing services, vendor landscape, and selecting the right partner for Agile DevOps transformation. Discover key insights from Forrester reports.
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WEBINAR Navigate The Continuous Testing Service Providers Landscape For An Agile DevOps Transformation Diego Lo Giudice, Vice President, Principal Analyst May 18, 2017. Call in at 10:55 a.m. Eastern time
Agenda • The effects of digital disruption on testing: continuous testing (CT) • CT and the services vendor landscape • What to look for in a great CT services vendor partner
The effects of digital disruption on testing: continuous testing (CT)
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Testing is more pervasive than ever in CD pipelines. Testing Source: The Quest For Speed-Plus-Quality Drives Agile And DevOps Tool Selection Forrester report
Continuous testing: What is it? A core testing capability (people, process, and technology) that enables quality@speed software delivery continuously. Where: All testing activities are run continuously in an integrated fashion with development and delivery. Code is verified on the go. Immediate bug fixing is enabled. Test environments are provisioned instantly. And unit, functional, and nonfunctional tests are run in an automated way. Orchestrated by continuous integration and continuous delivery tools
Continuous testing runs parallel to and integrates with Agile and DevOps Source: Vendor Landscape: Continuous Testing Services For Agile And DevOps Environments Forrester report
Categories of testing service providers Source: Vendor Landscape: Continuous Testing Services For Agile And DevOps Environments Forrester report
Automation, TDD/BDD development, and service virtualization are considered to be highest priority services Source: Vendor Landscape: Continuous Testing Services For Agile And DevOps Environments Forrester report
Can the service provide supply automation at scale services? • Revenue per tester • Accelerators and reusable test artefacts • Percentage of automation engineers over total testing workforce • A combination of the above: • High number of automation engineers ratio but low revenue per tester • High revenue per tester ratio but low number of automation engineers • Tens of thousands of testing employees offering manual testing for years, can it really have more than 60% automation engineers already?
Most frequent continuous testing payment models proposed by vendors
Most frequent continuous testing payment models proposed by vendors
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Check out the full Forrester research document on CT vendor landscape here:“Vendor Landscape: Continuous Testing Services For Agile And DevOps Environments” Forrester reportWatch out for the upcoming 2017 Q3 Continuous Testing Service Providers Wave!