2 years ago

Accelerating application delivery is a key part of maintaining a competitive advantage, but it’s hard for enterprise organizations to keep pace.

All too often, it’s testing that’s holding back the speed of application delivery — specifically, lack of a mature continuous testing practice that provides near real-time feedback on whether the application has an acceptable level of business risk.

Having a core set of automated tests that expose business risks as they’re introduced is a key component of continuous testing.

Here are some tips from how Linde, the world’s largest gas company, introduced test automation into the 100+-year-old company’s complex web of highly-customized SAP, Salesforce, web and mobile apps: A primary goal of continuous testing is to determine if a release candidate is ready for production.

If you’d like to explore these and other enterprise Continuous Testing challenges in-depth, I invite you to read my recent book, “Enterprise Continuous Testing: Transforming Testing for Agile and DevOps.”