2016 iCAthlon Presentation www.iCAthlon.com

1. DevOps Automation Best Practices

2. Agenda
• Why Development Automation and Agility
• Automated Build Best Practices
• Automated Test Best Practices
– Database compare tool

3. What is DevOps

4. DevOps
A recent global study, commissioned by CA Technologies,
which canvassed 1,300 senior IT decision-makers
worldwide, revealed respondents had seen a 17% to
23% improvement with regards to increased
earnings, shorter time-to-market, heightened
competitiveness and greater customer satisfaction
due to their DevOps initiatives.

5. Mode 1 vs Mode 2 Organizations
Two Types of Organizations:
Mode 1 “linear” vs Mode 2
“non-linear”.
Is one better? Not necessarily.
Does DevOps Apply to both? Yes!

6. Gartner
By 2020, 80% of the practices associated with DevOps
and Mode 2 “Agile” management will be adopted by
Mode 1 organizations.
DevOps is a Bridge
Key message: Automate as Much as Possible,
regardless of your star status!

7. One way to get there
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8. Best Practices of Agile Management
• Manage Agile Projects
– Manage user stories/tickets/use cases -> Backlog
– Plan, prioritize, order, specify, assign resources
– Execute sprints, work on sprint backlog items
– Monitor progress
– Deploy changes
• Transparency
– Reports

9. Best Practices Release Automation
SCRUM – an agile framework

10. Sprints

11. User Stories

12. Kanban Board
OPEN DEVELOPMENT TEST COMPLETED
2007697
Check out process
Story Points: 0
2007693
Add price/discount information
Story Points: 6
2007692
Update product detail information
Story Points: 2
2007674
Create Welcome Page
Story Points: 2
Login Process
2007698
Enter credit card information
Story Points: 0
2007695
Browse product catalogue
Story Points: 0
2007694
Upoad product pictures
Story Points: 3
2007675
Create new login user
Story Points: 4
Customer Management
2007699
Track shipment
Story Points: 0
2007696
Select product for shopping cart
Story Points: 0
2007676
Login with user name and password
Story Points: 5
Product Management
2007700
View Order History
Story Points: 0
2007677
Request new password
Story Points: 4
Product Order Process
2007701
Report order summary per month
Story Points: 0
2007678
Update security questions
Story Points: 3
Reporting
2007702
Report cancelled orders YTD
Story Points: 0
2007679
Disable login user
Story Points: 2
2007703
Report order backlog
Story Points: 0
2007685
Set up Infrastructure for AgileX development
Story Points: 4
2007704
Cancel order
Story Points: 0
2007686
Load backlog for AgileX development
Story Points: 3
2007705
Report orders by product group
Story Points: 0
2007691
Create product
Story Points: 4
KANBAN BOARD

13. Story Mapping
AgileX
│
LOGIN PROCESS CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT PRODUCT MANAGEMENT PRODUCT ORDER PROCESS REPORTING
2007674
Create Welcome Page
Story Points: 2
2007681
Create new customer
Story Points: 6
2007690
Create product groups
Story Points: 1
2007696
Select product for shopping cart
Story Points: 0
2007701
Report order summary per month
Story Points: 0
2007675
Create new login user
Story Points: 4
2007682
Update customer information
Story Points: 3
2007691
Create product
Story Points: 4
2007697
Check out process
Story Points: 0
2007702
Report cancelled orders YTD
Story Points: 0
2007676
Login with user name and password
Story Points: 5
2007683
Disable customer from ordering products
Story Points: 1
2007692
Update product detail information
Story Points: 2
2007698
Enter credit card information
Story Points: 0
2007703
Report order backlog
Story Points: 0
2007677
Request new password
Story Points: 4
2007684
Integrate google maps for customer location
Story Points: 3
2007693
Add price/discount information
Story Points: 6
2007699
Track shipment
Story Points: 0
2007705
Report orders by product group
Story Points: 0
2007678
Update security questions
Story Points: 3
2007695
Browse product catalogue
Story Points: 0
2007694
Upoad product pictures
Story Points: 3
2007700
View Order History
Story Points: 0
2007679
Disable login user
Story Points: 2
2007704
Cancel order
Story Points: 0
2007680
View login history
Story Points: 3
STORY MAPPING

14. Burn Down Charts
Sprint 0 From 09/30/2013 To 10/04/2013 Estimated Story Points: 7
Date Day Story Points Burn Down Ideal Burn Down
9/30/2013 1 0 7 7
10/01/2013 2 3 4 5
10/02/2013 3 0 4 4
10/03/2013 4 0 4 2
10/04/2013 5 4 0 0
Sprint 1 From 10/07/2013 To 10/18/2013 Estimated Story Points: 23
Date Day Story Points Burn Down Ideal Burn Down
10/7/2013 1 0 23 23
10/08/2013 2 2 21 20
10/09/2013 3 0 21 18
10/10/2013 4 4 17 15
10/11/2013 5 0 17 13
10/14/2013 6 9 8 10
10/15/2013 7 0 8 8
10/16/2013 8 0 8 5
10/17/2013 9 3 5 3
10/18/2013 10 2 3 0
BURN DOWN CHARTS
0
5
10
15
20
25
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Sprint 1 From 10/07/2013 To10/18/2013
Burn Down
Ideal Burn Down
Sprint 2 From 10/21/2013 To11/01/2013
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Sprint 0 From 09/30/2013 To10/04/2013
Burn Down
Ideal Burn Down

15. What has changed?
CM First Group. 15
CA Plex CA 2E
IBM i
Library
Filesystem
SVN
Repository

16. Automated Deployment
CM First Group. 16
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library
IBM I
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Plex Function & DB
RPGIV
LF and PF
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17. Update a Model
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The extracted/checked in models can be selected for update into the
group model (depending on configuration)
The Model Manager unlocks the group model and opens up the local
model.

18. Summary
• Moving towards Agile / DevOps
– Short Cycles
– Transparency, Inspection, Adaption
• Use Tooling
– AUTOMATION is crucial for Agile/DevOPs

19. Best Practices in Automated Testing
CM First Group. 19

20. Cost of Defects
1:10:100

21. Tortoise and the Hare
SlowcyleFastCycle
High Defect Low Defect

22. Promise of Test Automation
• Speed
– Automated tests fast to run
• Flexibility
– Can be done off hours
• Accuracy
– Not prone to human error
• Reusability
– Without boredom
• Maximizing People
– QA modifies and perfects the process

23. Tortoise and Hare Reprise
SlowcyleFastCycle
High Defect Low Defect

24. Payback Times
Cumulative$$$
Time / Test Cycles
Naïve
Automation
Manual
Next Gen
Automation

25. Types of Test Automation
• Functional Testing
– Unit Tests
– Integration Tests
– Regression Tests
• API Testing
• Load Testing
• Database Compare
• Code Test Coverage
• Vendors
– Worksoft
• 5250/3270, SAP (Certify)
– SmartBear
• Web, Windows (TestComplete, LoadComplete, SOAPUI)

26. Best Practices to Get Started
• Choose a tool that can do end to end testing across
technologies
• Look at existing testing closely for actual coverage
– Considering using coverage tools
• Change the way you think about time
• Don’t try to “boil the ocean”. Pick your 25 top processes.

27. Certify Process

28. Users and Groups

29. Applications and Projects

30. Application Maps

31. Versioning Maps

32. Versioning Maps

33. Requirements

34. Processes

35. Variables and Datasets

36. Executing Processes

37. Executing Processes

38. Executing Processes

39. Executing Processes