Flip on the Testing Switch for Ops-DevOps Engineers

4 years ago dzone.com

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If you are an operations or infrastructure type engineer, testing may mean traditional “QA”, UAT, or the newer test automation. An alternate way to think about tests is that you are asking a question about the software or infrastructure.

Engineers from an infrastructure/hardware background (Ops-DevOps) may not be as familiar with tests and might find the idea of ‘checks’ useful. If you are a developer who is very familiar with unit tests and test automation, I recommend thinking of checks when you write your tests (checks?).

However, if you haven’t heard of checks, you can start with thinking of tests and checks as distinct.

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