An overview session about the roles/needs of quality assurance and automated testing for a complex web application. This is a highlevel session that talk about general concepts naming some tools to achieve the concepts such as: Continuous Integration, Automated Functional Testing, Continuous Delivery/Deployment.

1. Total Quality Management
for Complex Web
Applications
Mohammed J. Razem
CEO, Vardot
January 14, 2017

2. ABOUT VARDOT
• Vardot is an enterprise web solutions provider that uses
Drupal and open technologies to help the world’s
influential organizations accomplish their missions.
• We build Drupal solution for News & Media, Education,
NGO’s, and Corporate sectors.
• Check us out at www.vardot.com
www.github.com/vardot
www.drupal.org/vardot

3. ABOUT VARDOT

4. ABOUT VARDOT
• Vardot is made up of a good group of people that all work to achieve the
same results.
• We have two products:

5. QA AT VARDOT

6. QA AT VARDOT

7. BEFORE WE PROCEED

8. AUDIENCE CHECK
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Deployment

9. WE WORK WITH
COMPLEX WEB
APPLICAITONS

10. COMPLEX WEB APPLICATIONS
Why Complex?
http://www.slideshare.net/PhilipBoxer/enterprise-architecture-for-complex-system-ofsystems-contexts

11. COMPLEX WEB APPLICATIONS
Integrations Multiple Platforms
Cross / Systems
Configuration Management Distributed Servers/Regions
Distributed Deployments 500,000+ Lines of Code
2000+ Features

12. TEST BOUNDARIES
• We need to ensure end to end testing
SYSTEM
CP
Search
Engine
Rest API
Consumer
Mobile
Agent
Database

13. TEST BOUNDARIES
• We need to ensure single system
SYSTEM
CP
Search
Engine
Rest API
Consumer
Mobile
Agent
Database

14. TEST BOUNDARIES
• We need to ensure units inside the system
SYSTEM
CP
Search
Engine
Rest API
Consumer
Mobile
Agent
Database

15. RUN THESE TESTS FOR EVERY RELEASE
SYSTEM
CP
Search
Engine
Rest API
Consumer
Mobile
Agent
Database

16. Questions …
We still didn’t finish

17. TEST QUADRANTS
UNIT TESTING
COMPONENT TESTS
Etc.
Technology Facing
Product
Critique
Teams
FUNCTIONAL TESTS
Examples
Story Test
Prototypes
Simulations
PERFORMANCE & LOAD
TESTING
SECURITY TESTING
Etc.
EXPLORATORY TESTING
Scenarios
Usability Testing
UAT
Alpha/Beta
Etc..
Business Facing
QA & Dev
Teams
Automated
& Manual
Automated
Manual
Tools

18. NEW CONCEPTS TO DRIVE QUALITY
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Deployment

19. http://scalarsoftware.com/importance-of-continuous-delivery/

20. Remember Continuous
Integration / Delivery /
Deployment?
What’s the difference?

21. CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION VS.
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY VS.
CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT VS.
http://scalarsoftware.com/importance-of-continuous-delivery/

22. FREE TOOLS/TECH. WE USE TO AUTOMATE
PHPUnit
CSSLint
JSLint
Technology Facing
Product
Critique
Teams
Behat / Gherkin Scripts
Selenium
JMeter
Screaming Frog
Security Audits
Penetration Testing
Wraith
BrowserStack
Business Facing
QA & Dev
Teams
Automated
& Manual
Automated
Manual
Tools

23. FREE TOOLS/TECH. WE USE TO AUTOMATE
• Continuous Integration: Travis CI or Jenkins
• Continuous Delivery: GoCD

24. That’s it…
Let’s See Some Live
Samples

25. Thank You
www.vardot.com
m.razem@vardot.com