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Executive Summary
1. High likelihod, test orchestration is already happening, just unintentionally.
Many teams manage complex automated testing using home-grown CI/CD scripts and custom tooling which lacks visibility, standardization, or scalability. This approach becomes unsustainable and brittle at scale.
2. Purposeful test orchestration is key to sustainable Continuous Testing.
A dedicated layer ensures the right tests run at the right time by the right people across environments. It improves SW delivery and quality by decoupling test logic from CI/CD pipelines.
3. Modern teams are investing in orchestration platforms.
By adopting purpose-built solutions, they gain reusable test workflows, scalable test execution, centralized test observability, and developer autonomy, empowering Continuous Testing that keeps up with the pace of cloud-native application delivery.
Implementing large-scale automated testing can improve the quality of software builds. However, understanding which automated tests have been run, when and by whom, let alone the results, can be challenging especially where organizations have multiple teams, are implementing shift-left processes, have multiple CI/CD systems, or have a diversity of automated testing tools.
Shift-left organizations, for example, might have developers triggering and running automated tests locally or manually making centralized test execution visibility impossible. Where CI/CD systems trigger tests, difficult-to-understand scripts contain the listing of test executions. Finally, the greater the diversity of testing tools, the greater the need for additional processes to collect test run results for a consolidated view.
Testkube’s vendor-agnostic test Orchestration and Execution platform solves the test automation reporting problem among other challenges of test automation at scale. Testkube’s Control Plane provides a simple to-create catalog of all automated tests for a cluster. Using this catalog, tests can be triggered from CI/CD systems, manually, on a schedule, or due to changes in the underlying K8s infrastructure. After tests are executed, results, logs, and artifacts are aggregated into a single pane of glass for analysis, debugging, and reporting.
Testkube’s new Insight and Analytics Module allows test executions to be grouped by priority, type of test, release, cluster, or any other user-selectable convention. Test reporting is provided on a time series basis showing pass/fail ratios, test run durations, criticality, etc. In addition, testing efficiency analysis plots the frequency against the run time allowing DevOps and Engineering teams to quickly locate the highest frequency or longest running tests for improvement. Test automation reporting is available across environments and clusters for total test execution awareness.
Testkube’s new reporting and analytics module is generally available and can be downloaded as part of the Testkube Orchestration and Execution Platform at www.testkube.io.
About Testkube
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