--- title: Application Development url: https://www.broadcom.com/products/software/app-dev description: Make testing an ongoing part of the software development lifecycle with continuous testing. Find out how continuous testing helps you build better apps, faster—and at lower costs. --- # Application Development ## Modern, Intelligent Continuous Testing for DevOps Deliver five star user experiences consistently. Eliminate QA roadblocks and improve quality. ## What is continuous testing? Continuous testing is the practice of embedding quality through every phase of the software delivery lifecycle - from planning to production. The goal is to ensure that testing continuously reduces risk and improves application quality. - Scale tests early with a unified software testing solution built for developers. - Use open source based technologies to extend your Testing Center of Excellence (CoE), democratize testing so your Agile teams can test early and often. - Test in sprint with tests and automation generated directly from requirements. - Enable any team to create and update tests with easy-to-use scriptless automated testing. - Eliminate costly delays in test environments with virtual services and synthetic test data available on demand. - Ensure five-star user experience with a single platform that delivers capabilities including 360 degree API test and monitoring and combined functional testing and UI testing that shows application performance under peak traffic. - Use AI-powered insights based on DevOps and continuous delivery pipeline metrics synthesized across systems and releases to increase pipeline and application testing efficiency. - Improve business outcomes by making data-driven decisions about release readiness and application quality to increase confidence, lower risk, and gain competitive advantage. ## Differentiate on quality with Continuous Testing from Broadcom Businesses that focus on quality throughout their software development differentiate themselves and can deliver better customer experiences, leading to improved business outcomes. Continuous Testing from Broadcom helps business leaders scale digital innovation with the use of intelligent automated testing that constantly monitors, orchestrates and optimizes continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows. By embedding quality throughout the software lifecycle, businesses eliminate QA bottlenecks for faster, higher quality software releases. Teams that constantly learn from fast, continuous feedback make informed decisions that consistently improve the quality of the software they build. ## Continuous Testing Report As organizations use Agile and DevOps methodologies for software development, continuous testing has become a core part of continuous delivery and continuous integration (CD/CI). Testing has transformed from independent stages to an ongoing process, owned and supported by all team members. How are organizations adapting from traditional testing to continuous testing? In the Continuous Testing Report, we examine: - Changes continuous testing creates across the development cycle - Challenges that it presents and what needs to be overcome - Best practices for implementing continuous testing The report also analyzes the shift left and shift right of testing, improving the level of in-sprint testing, orchestration and organization of quality assurance activities within and across the feature teams, test environment and test data provisioning, continuous quality monitoring in production, and the skilling and enablement of feature teams in QA and testing. Based on survey data and hands-on examples, get a concise overview of the current standards and best practices and key recommendations to move ahead with continuous testing, ultimately delivering better, faster services for the business and customers. ## Scale Digital Innovation ![continuous-testing-devops-spiral.png](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt0c06097b1942cb3b/6051c917a844f807b655e99e/continuous-testing-devops-spiral.png) Modern, intelligent automated testing accelerates digital, agile, and devops transformation. Provide an AI-powered, intelligent delivery pipeline that improves overall visibility, velocity, and quality. ## Rapid Time-to-Market ![continuous-testing-firey-tyre.png](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/bltc5471ec1d357f1fb/6051ba221078bc20548c3293/continuous-testing-firey-tyre.png) Shift-left, shift-right test practices speed up test cycles and reduce costly delays. Embed quality from initial requirements through production to eliminate QA roadblocks. ## Quality and Reliability ![continuous-testing-circling-upward-arrows.png](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/bltee6c722191a13898/6051bc58aa7f7e6da5d62973/continuous-testing-circling-upward-arrows.png) Continuous improvement enables you to improve customer experience and business success. Offer data-driven, predictive insights and risk remediation for more efficient business processes and site reliability. ## Featured Products ![Continuous Testing Icon](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blte63eca8a3f15ce77/603549491b461135d19ccd7c/Continuous-Testing.png) ### [Test Data Manager](https://www.broadcom.com/products/software/app-dev/test-data-manager) Drive greater efficiency and compliance for test data delivery. 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