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If your team is just starting your DevOps journey, where to start improving testing from?<\/p>\n

Begin with investing in automating your services layer first.<\/p>\n

Folks assume that’s just about writing API tests, to me this is more of a mind set change as well<\/p>\n

The rule of thumb is, test nearest to where the production code is written,<\/p>\n

For instance, any functionality written within a micro-service, should be tests at the micoservice level, functionality on the mesh gateway should be tested there and so on.<\/p>\n

DevOps tools are not magically going to test and debug problems for you, unless the tests are planned at the right place, they will be flaky and have overhead while debugging.<\/p>\n

#RedefiningSoftwareQuality<\/a>\u00a0 #DevOps<\/a>\u00a0 #QualityTransformation<\/a>\u00a0 #TestAutomation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>