Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions

The testing pyramid

In many older projects, there are not too many automated functional tests. Often, many of these tests are slow to run, have a large test scope, are hard to maintain, and fail regular without a clear cause. The value that these tests provide is often very limited. To counter the lack of good automated tests, there are then many manual tests that are used to do a full regression test of the application before a new version is deployed. These automated tests are very time consuming and rarely executed. There is no fast feedback to developers and defects are often detected late. It is hard to practice DevOps in such a situation since the focus in DevOps is on creating new versions often and at a high rate.

Such a group of ...