Accelerating Software Quality: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in the Age of DevOps

by Eran Kinsbruner

The book “Accelerating Software Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in the Age of DevOps” is a complete asset for software developers, testers, and managers that are on their journey to a more mature DevOps workflow, and struggle with better automation and data-driven decision making. DevOps is a mature process across the entire market, however, with existing Non-AI/ML technologies and models, it comes short in expediting release cycle, identifying productivity gaps and addressing them. This book, that was implemented by myself with the help of leaders from the DevOps and test automation space, is covering topics from basic introduction to AI and ML in software development and testing, implications of AI and ML on existing apps, processes, and tools, practical tips in applying commercial and open-source AI/ML tools within existing tool chain, chatbots testing, visual based testing using AI, automated security scanning for vulnerabilities, automated code reviews, API testing and management using AI/ML, reducing effort and time through test impact analysis (TIA), robotic process automation (RPA), AIOps for smarter code deployments and production defects prevention, and many more. When properly leveraging such tools, DevOps teams can benefit from greater code quality and functional and non-functional test automation coverage. This increases their release cycle velocity, reduces noise and software waste, and enhances their app quality. The book is divided into 3 main • Section 1 covers the fundamentals of AI and ML in software development and testing. It includes introductions, definitions, 101 for testing AI-Based applications, classifications of AI/ML and defects that are tied to AI/ML, and more. • Section 2 focuses on practical advises and recommendations for using AI/ML based solutions within software development activities. This section includes topics like visual AI test automation, AI in test management, testing conversational AI applications, RPA benefits, API testing and much more. • Section 3 covers the more advanced and future-looking angles of AI and ML with projections and unique use cases. Among the topics in this section are AI and ML in logs observability, AIOps benefits to an entire DevOps teams, how to maintain AI/ML test automation, Test impact analysis with AI, and more. The book is packed with many proven best practices, real life examples, and many other open source and commercial solution recommendations that are set to shape the future of DevOps together with ML/AI

359 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2020

Reviews

[Sari Amitay · Rating 5 out of 5]

A one stop shop for everything AI/ML in DevOps

The book gave me a great overview on where can AI and ML technologies help enhance DevOps and automate more processes and other error prone activities in the cycle. Such book can help many software professionals get started with advanced technologies that are already available in the market and can impact the daily tasks.