Shifting Left: The Evolution of Test Automation

This document summarizes a webinar on introducing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). It discusses scaling agile from the team, program, and portfolio levels. It introduces SAFe values and how it draws from agile, lean, and product development flow principles. It also outlines the SAFe framework at each level including elements like Agile Release Trains, program increments, and upcoming SAFe training events.

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This document discusses canary deployments as a technique for reducing risk when introducing new code to production. It defines canary deployments as deploying new code to a small subset of servers first before fully deploying. Canary deployments allow testing the new code on real users before rolling out widely. CA Release Automation supports defining and executing canary deployments to help reliably deploy new functionality while mitigating risks of failures. The document provides examples of how Netflix and Etsy use canary deployments and demonstrates a typical canary deployment workflow supported by CA Release Automation.

Portfolio management is where strategy meets execution, taking organizations from an aspirational strategy to realistic delivery while managing investments and work. For organizations with agile teams, there can be friction between the investment governance of their project portfolio and the adoption of Agile practices, stifling their ability to innovate. This session will examine the issues involved and discuss how connecting PPM and agile via CA PPM and CA Agile Central can alleviate this friction and empower organizations to innovate, prioritize investments and deliver rapidly. For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe

The document provides an overview of Equifax UK's adoption of Agile practices. It summarizes their reasons for embracing Agile, including hitting the market fast and delivering value to customers quickly. It then details some of the challenges of distributed Agile teams across time zones and cultures. The presentation provides lessons learned on building relationships, using tools to communicate, and adapting practices like Scrum to fit the organization. It concludes that the outcomes of adopting Agile at Equifax UK included an ability to adapt quickly, dramatically reduced delivery times, delivering under budget and on time, and providing what customers wanted.

This document discusses how DevOps teams can keep up with business demands and the talent shortage by automating testing and integrating it into their DevOps pipelines. It asks how much testing is currently automated, how integrated testing is with CI/CD pipelines, and what shifting testing left in the DevOps process means.

Moving from Load Runner to Open Source: Increase Performance Test Coverage 10x-100x through shift-left and democratization DO5T54S

The document discusses the technology strategy and transformation at Cambridge Satchel, a British bag company. It summarizes that in 2014, the company saw an opportunity to reinvent its technology and team due to technology debt. It implemented a clean sheet approach, building a new modern technology stack from the ground up with a small but highly skilled team. This included replacing all existing systems and building new capabilities for unified commerce across multiple selling channels.

Pango is an agile cloud service that started in 2007 with 2 million subscribers and processes millions of transactions per month. It offers parking, car care, roadside assistance, and toll payment services. To improve flexibility, speed, and productivity, Pango transitioned from a waterfall to an agile approach using Scrum, SAFe, lean product development, and DevOps practices. This enabled 2-5x faster delivery, 4x higher productivity, and 3-5x more effective teams. Pango also moved its infrastructure and services to AWS to gain performance, scalability, availability, and security benefits while further enhancing its agile development capabilities.

REALTECH presented their DevOps for SAP solutions. They discussed how DevOps helps SAP systems become more agile and flexible through close collaboration between development and operations. REALTECH's SmartChange product provides transport management, synchronization management, and change process management to enable automated and reliable SAP changes. A demo showed how SmartChange streamlines the entire change management lifecycle through flexible workflows and integrated reporting.

Showing the challenges and opportunities within the SAP ecosystem for adopting DevOps practices. Discussing how ABAP, HANA, UI5, BObj, NW JAVA and SCP JAVA each have their own capabilities and challenges in adopting DevOps.

The document discusses enabling continuous delivery and digital transformation through DevOps. It highlights how a perfect storm of mobile, cloud, and data is raising customer expectations and describes how continuous delivery can help organizations innovate more quickly through automated testing, deployment, and feedback. Continuous delivery with the right tools can help drive agility, flexibility, and responsiveness for digital transformation initiatives.