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Shift Left and Shift Right to Truly Extract DevOps’ Might

by While on one hand, you have a team of individuals with different skills and specialties (right/left/center fullbacks, midfielder, defender, goalkeeper) trying to score the most number of goals; on the other hand, you have another heterogeneous group (Developer, Tester, Security Engineer and Operations) trying to create the most number of user-centric, ultra-responsive applications while ensuring supreme quality.

Be it Netflix, Target, Walmart, Facebook or Twitter; these organizations have changed the face of the software game by adopting DevOps, by bring Developers and Operations together and bridging the gaps of waterfall by keeping testers and security personnel at every step of the process.

Lack of continuous testing and the relegation of security to the final stage of the software life cycle impedes the majority of organizations to leverage the most of it.

Shift right facilitates testing in a post-production environment by undertaking requirements validation based on real user journeys, deriving performance test scenarios, A/B testing and canary testing to understand customer vibes and crowd testing to better appreciate real-world experiences constitute a part of shift right testing.