SOLUTION OVERVIEW

As application performance and security become increasingly central to its adoption, it is imperative to integrate non-functional testing with DevOps pipeline. Cognizant DevSPACE is an intelligent, end-to-end automated framework that integrates non-functional tools with the DevOps tool chain, ensuring faster releases for high-performing, secure applications.

DEVSPACE: DRIVE QUALITY AT SPEED WITH DEVOPS-ENABLED NON-FUNCTIONAL TESTING

Introducing Cognizant DevSPACE: DevOps for Security, Performance, Accessibility in Continuous Evaluation

November 2019SOLUTION OVERVIEW

How DevSPACE fits in with AgileIn a Sprint model, DevSPACE validates across phases using multiple integrated test tools and delivering following benefits

A case in point

A leading U.S.-based healthcare provider, operating in DevOps methodology, wanted to integrate non-functional testing into the DevOps pipeline to speed-up QA sign-offs on performance and security.

Business Challenge

Solution

• Provides seamless integration with multiple tools

• Presents insights through dashboards & reports

• Compatible with CI tools• Output from solution can be

mapped to any reporting platform

• Supports heterogeneous technology landscape

• Repurposes and enhances existing tools, plugins to build a complete solution

With Cognizant DevSPACE, the client was able to integrate NFT tools such as Jenkins, NeoLoad, Ranorex and Dynatrace within the DevOps pipeline, thus:

Integration Flexibility Inclusiveness

• Enabling automated test execution and performance report creation • Generating customized performance test report including trend analysis and automated feedback• Ensuring automated root cause analysis• Generating automated emails at the end of each test with detailed test results

• Test automation reduced manual effort by 80-90%, saving $7,500 per quarter• Shift-Left Enabler with Dev/ QA teams owning Performance Test execution through Jenkins • Provides early build feedback to Developers, before build comes to QA Team, ensuring faster recovery

Benefits

DevSPACE Components & Benefits

Insights on root cause of the performance issues and

recommendations using ML algorithms

Feedback mechanism and pipeline governed by quality gates with insights through automated

dashboards, reports & emails using Groovy, Kibana, Elasticsearch & HTML

Ability to integrate with NFT tools (such asNeoLoad, Dynatrace, Jmeter) and build

tools (Jenkins, bamboo) in a pipeline

INTELLIGENCEFEEDBACK & DASHBOARDINTEGRATION

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