DevOps QA benchmarking assessment areas

With this proposed toolkit for DevOps QA benchmarking assessment, we assess the current state of each of the practices in the 25 elements in the 6 key areas on a scale of 1-4.

The 6 areas of assessment with overall 25 elements assessed for the state of maturity on a scale of 1-4 are listed here:

Source Control:

• Software Configuration Management
• Frequency of Code Commits
• Unit Testing
• Branching Complexity
• Infrastructure Version Control

Build Management:

• Build Infrastructure
• Automated Build Management
• Build Repository
• Dependencies Management
• Cluster Management
• Virtual Machine Management
• Gated Commits

Test Management:

• Test Process Management
• Continuous Automation
• Non-Functional Testing
• Service Virtualization
• Test Data Automation

Deployment:

• Automated Deployment
• Notifications
• Database Configuration

Release Management:

• Release Process
• Roll-Back Process

Monitoring:

• Continuous Monitoring
• Metrics Analysis
• Dashboard and Reporting

Outcome of DevOps QA benchmarking assessment

A sample snapshot of the DevOps QA Benchmarking assessment is provided in the following graph: