DevOps Testing
DevOps testing integrates testing throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle — development, deployment, and live operation — rather than treating it as a separate phase handled solely by a distinct QA team after development finishes. It's a cultural and process shift as much as a technical one.
Under a DevOps model, testing responsibility spreads across the team rather than concentrating in a dedicated QA silo — developers write and own unit and integration tests, infrastructure gets tested as code, and monitoring in production is treated as a continuation of testing, not a separate operational concern handled by a different team entirely.
This shows up concretely in practices like shift-left testing (moving checks earlier) and shift-right testing (extending verification into production via monitoring) — both are DevOps testing in action, reflecting the idea that quality is everyone's continuous responsibility across the whole pipeline, not a single late-stage checkpoint.
