Service brief Professional Services
Enterprise DevOps: Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing Services
Increase the quality and speed of application development and delivery.
Executive summary Our approach • Accelerate implementation using Model Office as the reference point DevOps is gaining traction globally Micro Focus Continuous Integration and • Coaching to implement acceptance because IT organizations recognize it as Continuous Testing Services enable and adoption of DevOps practices, the best way to deliver value faster, organizations to increase the quality and processes, and tools reduce risk, and achieve great outcomes speed of application development and • Drive continuous execution, in line for both the organization and its delivery through: with the roadmap customers. • Best of breed (Micro Focus, third- Getting more from your software Many organizations are now looking to party, and Open Source software) move beyond their initial footprint, but technology stack investments adopting DevOps across the board and • Our DevOps Model Office reference We recognize that you may have already scaling it to the enterprise level is not architecture and implementation made investments in your tooling. We just “doing more of the same.” DevOps • Our DevOps Operating Model that help you get more out of your spans the entire IT Value Chain and holistically considers best practices investment with a best of breed finding the best starting point can be a including process maps, how to drive solution. Our DevOps Model Office challenge, as is driving adoption of the adoption and cultural change, roles provides pre-configured integrations, necessary changes across technology, and responsibilities, key performance using our Common Integration process, culture, and overall mindset. indicators (KPIs), and Scaled Agile Framework, between Micro Focus At Micro Focus Professional Services, we Framework (SAFe) alignment products (such as Micro Focus have helped many customers succeed Application Lifecycle Management We know that each customer is unique, Octane, Codar, Mobile Center and with a “think big, start small” approach. so we combine all these elements to This approach uses our Enterprise Performance Center) and your third- define the framework and solution that party and Open Source tools (like DevOps Point of View to set the vision, work best for you. Both Continuous and starts the implementation where Jenkins, Bamboo, Chef, Puppet and GIT), Integration and Continuous Testing including ChatOps and security. you can make the biggest impact in the services employ the same overall shortest time: Continuous Integration approach: and Continuous Testing. • Assess your current maturity • Develop a prioritized roadmap of activities, clearly identifying quick wins as well as mid- and long-term initiatives Enterprise DevOps: Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing Service brief
Continuous Integration • Support traditional, mobile app, and Continuous Testing Service Service microservices-based applications • Improve—through coaching—your Continuous Testing is the practice of Continuous Integration is a practice that agile practices (especially Scrum- and executing automated tests as part of the requires developers to check-in code to SAFe-inspired approaches) software delivery pipeline, to obtain a shared repository several times a day, • Use ChatOps to improve immediate feedback on the business where it is verified by an automated collaboration, quality, and feedback risks associated with the software build. This allows teams to detect capabilities release. It requires developers and testers to work together to improve the problems early in the application Benefits lifecycle. overall quality of the entire product. It • Improve agility and quality by augments continuous integration as it Micro Focus Continuous Integration increasing collaboration, feedback, allows teams to scale work volumes and Service implements these principles and quality, and velocity, resulting in process more changes without helps you to: direct economic and user experience compromising quality. benefits • Develop a common approach and Micro Focus Continuous Testing Service integrated platform for IDEs, source • Improve productivity by focusing on implements these principles and helps control, build, testing, and new features and innovation rather you to: deployment than debugging builds and • Accelerate testing by establishing a • Improve code quality techniques refactoring code collaborative test-driven approach of such as static analysis, code • Reduce risk by instituting Continuous writing tests before code is ready decoupling, and unit testing Integration at the beginning of the • Improve traceability by linking test • Develop an end-to-end Continuous DevOps journey, to immediately assets to code, requirements, Integration process: from check-out, decrease risk of defects and negative defects, and builds through unit testing, to build and customer experience • deployment • Secure your applications by Adopt and improve automated testing capabilities across unit, • Rapidly provision and de- provision integrating security testing into your functional, regression, performance, development and test environments development lifecycle and security testing
Figure 1: Micro Focus DevOps Operating Model
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Enterprise DevOps: Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing Service brief
Figure 2: The Micro Focus DevOps framework with Continuous Integration & Continuous Testing
• Use network, service, and data change, skills gap, failure to collaborate, • Expertise in Micro Focus tools and virtualization technology to shift and process design—or even the their practical application for DevOps misconception that DevOps teams do testing left • More than 20 years of experience not need to have any process • Integrating the overall test process helping large, complex, global with development, build, and discipline—are just some of the issues. organizations realize value from their deployment DevOps is transformative, and you need Micro Focus investments to invest time and money in the people • • Use targeted change impact and process aspects accordingly. Knowledge, expertise, and regression testing experience in managing change for • Focus manual testing on exploratory Our proven methods for managing transforming organizations and investigative testing change help you overcome resistance, • Best-of-breed tool frameworks for drive adoption, and ensure that your continuous integration, testing, Benefits DevOps success is not thwarted by these delivery, deployment, operations, • Increase agility by ramping up test challenges. and assessment velocity, coverage, and efficiency • Extensive educational services for • Reduce the cost of development The Micro Focus Professional Enterprise DevOps, Scaling Agile through early defect detection Services difference Framework, and Application Lifecycle • Eliminate traditional testing Management challenges with feedback loops Micro Focus Professional Services • Only Micro Focus Professional across the application lifecycle provides unmatched capabilities with a Services brings together the • Accelerate new feature delivery and comprehensive set of Enterprise DevOps consulting expertise and an reduce development costs by consulting and implementation services industry-leading DevOps software including continuous testing as a core and unique intellectual property that platform to help you break down step at the start of the DevOps help you accelerate innovation and silos, encourage collaboration, and journey deliver high-quality applications faster. increase quality and speed of We bring: application development and Adoption of the DevOps • Market-leading technology delivery mindset and approach • Unique DevOps Model Office reference implementation Learn more at Analyst research suggests that among • Global reach with practitioner-level Micro Focus Professional Services the biggest challenges facing enterprises experience in implementing DevOps Micro Focus DevOps Services wanting to adopt and scale DevOps are tool chains within complex people and process. Resistance to organizations
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