More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

Chapter 23. Testing and DevOps

We’ve worked for many years with team members who do activities that are now called DevOps. As Jez Humble says, team members engaged in DevOps build “a platform that allows developers to self-service environments for testing and production (and deployments to those environments)” (Humble, 2012). They provide tools that enable delivery teams to build, test, deploy, and run their systems. In our experience, everyone on agile teams is doing DevOps activities, but one or more team members contribute in-depth specialized skills. Giving the skill set a label has called attention to its importance in building quality into ...