Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery are the set of practices that development teams use to handle code changes in reliable and efficient way.It is generally used by Devops team.Continuous Integration is a practice of automating the integration of code. Continuous Delivery is a process carried away after Continuous Integration to make sure we can release the new changes error free to the customer.
Benefits of CI/CD:
1.Risk Reduction:It reduces the risk of major failures and downtime as continuous deployment process allows developer to fix issues early.
2.Quality Improvement:It improves the overall quality of software.Automated testing in CI/CD pipelines helps identify bugs, regressions, and integration issues early in the development cycle.
3.Enhanced Security:Security updates and patches can be applied more quickly.
4.Increased Collaboration: CI/CD promotes collaboration among development, testing, and operations teams.
5.Rollback and Recovery:CI/CD pipelines include rollback mechanisms allowing the user to revert to previous version of application.
Automation Testing and CI/CD:
Automation Testing in CI:
Unit,Integration and other types of testing are executed automatically whenever any changes in code are integrated.In case of failure CI can block thecode integration process.
Automation Testing and CD:
Automation testing can be performed for system testing and user acceptance testing.It can also perform security testing and non functional testing.
Thus automation testing plays a vital role in CI/CD process.
