Free Download Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback: Essential strategies and secure practices for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE transformations by Marc Hornbeek, Dan Wakeman
English | September 5, 2024 | ISBN: 1835462243 | 350 pages | EPUB | 15 Mb
A step-by-step guide to developing high-quality, secure, and agile software using continuous testing and feedback strategies and tools
Key Features:
– Gain insights from real-world use cases and experiences of an IEEE Outstanding Engineer and DevOps consultant
– Implement best practices for continuous testing strategies and tools, test designs, environments, results, and metrics
– Leverage AI/ML, implementation patterns, and performance measurement during software development
Book Description:
Organizations struggle to integrate and execute continuous testing, quality, security, and feedback practices into their DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE approaches to achieve successful digital transformations. This book addresses these challenges by embedding these critical practices into your software development lifecycle.
Beginning with the foundational concepts, the book progresses to practical applications, helping you understand why these practices are crucial in today’s fast-paced software development landscape. You’ll discover continuous strategies to avoid the common pitfalls and streamline the quality, security, and feedback mechanisms within software development processes. You’ll explore planning, discovery, and benchmarking through systematic engineering approaches, tailored to organizational needs. You’ll learn how to select toolchains, integrating AI/ML for resilience, and implement real-world case studies to achieve operational excellence. You’ll learn how to create strategic roadmaps, aligned with digital transformation goals, and measure outcomes recognized by DORA. You’ll explore emerging trends that are reshaping continuous practices in software development.
By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to drive continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle.
What You Will Learn:
– Ensure continuous testing, quality, security, and feedback in DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE practices
– Apply capability maturity models, set goals, conduct discoveries, and set benchmarks for digital transformations
– Implement and assess continuous improvement strategies with various tools and frameworks
– Avoid pitfalls and enhance user experience with gap assessments, value stream management, and roadmaps
– Adhere to proven engineering practices for software delivery and operations
– Stay on top of emerging trends in AI/ML and continuous improvement
Who this book is for:
This book is for software engineers, DevOps engineers, DevSecOps engineers, site reliability engineers, testers, QA professionals, and enterprise leaders looking to implement continuous testing, quality, security, and feedback for achieving efficiency, reliability, and success in digital transformations. Basic knowledge and experience in software development, testing, system design and system operations is a must.
Table of Contents
– Principles of Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback
– The Importance of Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback
– Experiences and Pitfalls with Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback
– Engineering Approach to Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback
– Determining Transformation Goals
– Discovery and Benchmarking
– Selecting Tool Platforms and Tools
– Applying AL/ML to Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback
– Use Cases for Integrating with DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE
– Building Roadmaps for Implementation
– Understanding Transformation Implementation Patterns
– Measuring Progress and Outcomes
– Emerging Trends
– Exploring Continuous Learning and Improvement