Set up an automated development street in the cloud. It's possible, but why?
In short:
- Automation of development streets in the cloud leads to cost savings and improvements in speed and quality.
- Technical aspects such as repetitive tasks are automated, allowing developers to work faster and test environments to be updated in minutes.
- Process automation makes workflows measurable and removes human randomness, resulting in fewer errors and potentially savings of up to 1 to 2 FTE, while maintaining or improving the quality of the result. Moving development streets to the cloud offers additional flexibility, cost savings and scalability.
Set up an automated development street in the cloud. It's possible, but why?
For developers, a development street is indispensable, especially for semi-practical software testing. In many cases, such a development street runs on its own server and is more or less organically structured. By (partially) automating a development street and moving it to or setting it up in the cloud, money can be saved. Quality and speed are also literally improving by leaps and bounds. Do you want to know how that is possible? Then read on quickly.
Technology and process
In development streets, the technical and the process-based aspects in particular are suitable for automation. On the technical side, it's about making it easier and faster for developers to work. For example, by automating repetitive actions, so you only have to press one button instead of continuously repeating an hour of work.
Work faster
In addition, many development streets are now working as stiff machines. It takes a long time to deploy a program and even longer to put it back to make changes. For this reason, releases are often stacked in order to be executed in one big step. As you can imagine, a lot of time is lost as a result. By automating the technical side, you can update a test environment in ten minutes instead of one to two hours. This makes the work process much more flexible and faster, which, of course, is also very nice to work for the developer himself.
Measurable processes
You can also gain a lot from a process point of view. This is about the way of working. By default, in a development street, you go through a number of steps to ultimately arrive at an application that is accepted. Or not natural. By recording these processes in detail, you make them measurable, making them possible to automate them.
By automating the processes, you remove the human aspect to a certain extent. This reduces randomness in testing, so that fewer errors will occur. Due to the higher speed of work, it is possible to save 1 to 2 FTE while the result remains the same or even better.
Development street in the cloud
By also moving your development street to the cloud, you can take a second leap in flexibility and cost savings. Instead of continuing to develop and manage your own development street, you can also choose to use a ready-to-use application that runs in the cloud.
Benefits
This has a number of advantages. The server of your own development street must always be up and running. In the cloud, you only use the time you need, so you can save considerably. In addition, the capacity in the cloud is fully scalable. Is it important to test whether your software also works on 300 or 500 devices at the same time? This is possible in the cloud.