DevOps Practices for Azure Infrastructure - Continuous Testing

So far, as part of my series on implementing DevOps practices for Azure infrastructure, I've walked through Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment. In many conversations I had around implementing DevOps I've heard an opinion that once you have CI/CD (or CI/CD/CD) you have DevOps. That's not true. DevOps is about a continuous loop of feedback, automation, collaboration, and improvement. As you can see in the picture below, those three practices give only about half of that loop and cover mostly the development side.

This is why there are more practices on the list:

• Continuous Planning
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Testing
• Continuous Operations
• Continuous Monitoring

To complete the loop and speak about complete DevOps implementation, it's time to start implementing practices that provide feedback from the deployed environment to the teams and automate operations concerns. In this post, I'm going to discuss Continuous Testing.

The goal of Continuous Testing is to ensure quality at different stages of the development life cycle. It's a practice that applies to both sides of the l