Digital OnUs: Runway for Continuous Testing

The software testing space has been evolving like never before. From manual testing to quality assurance, the industry is rapidly moving towards a much broader concept of ‘quality engineering’. “To accomplish this, companies are looking for integrated and continuous testing and delivery tools,” says Vineeth Rajagopal, Chief Business Officer and Innovation Head, Digital OnUs. True continuous delivery ensures automation, standardization, agility, and enhanced risk management in their quality/ performance engineering processes. Also, integration and delivery is impossible without continuous testing and quality monitoring. “In such a scenario, organizations need to reuse and realign their existing quality engineering automation capabilities.” Enter Digital OnUs, a Palo Alto, CA based company that helps organizations to orchestrate continuous testing across their development, staging, and production environment, with tight continuous feedback loops. “We optimize and accelerate quality engineering process to attain continuous testing, leveraging user telemetry data and the right set of automation tools; a must have for DevOps adoption.”

According to Rajagopal, today’s quality engineering experts are instrumental in creating a continuous testing infrastructure and establishing an early feedback loop, which can be obtained at five different levels or dimensions—code quality, pipeline automation, application functionality, customer experience (A/B test automation), and telemetry. “To involve an application thought process at the start, Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is the way to go, leveraging open source tool set.” By linking back their telemetry to the four other dimensions, organizations can improve automated build deployments, code coverage analysis, production monitoring, and on-demand environment provisioning. “This helps in optimizing your testing by leveraging your telemetry data or production data.” It also allows quality engineers to identify defects in real-time through quality engineering. Digital OnUs follows this ‘agile testing pyramid’, where SDETs bring in multiple levels of automation starting from unit, API and UI. In a nutshell, this process improvises the application features that needs to be tested or created, delivering enhanced customer experience.