Enhancing Quality Assurance Efficiency through CI/CD Integration: A Case Study on Automated Testing and Deployment
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Enhancing Quality Assurance Efficiency through CI/CD Integration: A Case Study on Automated Testing and Deployment
Mohnish Neelapu
Numeric technologies, Automation lead
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Abstract- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) have transformed software quality assurance (QA) radically by test automation and reducing release cycles. This research measures the effect of CI/CD integration into current QA processes in a real-world software development context based on a case study. The study presents comparisons on main metrics like rate of deployment, rate of detected defects, mean time to restore (MTTR), and ratio of automating efficiently with comparison to legacy QA vs. CI/CD-based processes. Qualitative data from interviews, survey data, log data, and CI/CD pipeline metrics have been used to determine the software quality and delivery speed impact. Results show that CI/CD improves testing efficiency by a large margin, lowering test execution time from 6 hours to 1.5 hours and defect detection from 70% to 92%. Although CI/CD has drawbacks such as infrastructure cost and flaky tests, practices like test environment stabilization and resource efficiency countered these drawbacks. The study recognizes CI/CD's role in improving agility, collaboration, and reliability in software development as a major method for modern QA practices.
Keywords- Software Quality Assurance, Agile Development, Deployment Efficiency, Continuous Integration and Automated Testing.