Testing applications in the DevOps pipeline

Having an effective automation test suite for your application in your continuous delivery DevOps pipeline ensures that the features and changes that you deliver to your customers are of high-quality and do not introduce regressions.

At a high level, the recommended test automation strategy for testing your Pega applications is as follows:

• Create your automation test suite based on industry best practices for test automation
• Build up your automation test suite by using Pega Platform capabilities and industry test solutions
• Run the right set of tests at different stages of your delivery pipeline
• Test early and test often

Industry best practices for test automation can be graphically shown as a test pyramid. Test types at the bottom of the pyramid are the least expensive to run, easiest to maintain, take the least amount of time to run, and should represent the greatest number of tests in the test suite. Test types at the top of the pyramid are the most expensive to run, hardest to maintain, take the most time to run, and should represent the least number of tests in the test suite. The higher up the pyramid you go, the higher the overall cost and the lower the benefits.