Continuous Testing Practices

  • Testing should be a collaboration of Development, QA, and Operations—aligned with the priorities of the line of business—within a coordinated, end-to-end quality process.
  • Tests should be logically-componentized, incremental, and repeatable; results must be deterministic and meaningful.
  • All tests need to be run at some point in the build pipeline, but not all tests need be run all the time.
  • Eliminate test data and environment constraints so that tests can run constantly and consistently in production-like environments.
  • To minimize false positives, minimize test maintenance, and more effectively validate use cases across modern systems with multi-tier architectures, teams should emphasize API testing over GUI testing.