Background: Shifting to the cloud comes with security threats and systems performance glitches or integrating legacy applications with brand-spanning new cloud infrastructures are the predicaments they need to engage in. Continuous testing as DevOps emerged as a remedy against the problems to make for smooth and successful cloud migration.
Aim: The study examines Continuous Testing (CT) in a DevOps
environment for cloud migration within the Property & Casualty (P&C)
insurance industry and InsurTech companies. The study evaluates the impact of
AI/ML-driven test automation, security testing, and performance validation
using tools like Selenium, JUnit, and TestNG; CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins,
GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
Methodology: This study takes a mixed methods approach that
incorporates case studies, industry surveys, and experimental testing to assess
the efficiency of Continuous Testing in cloud migration strategies. Through
experimentation with automated testing tools such as Selenium, JUnit, and
Jenkins, the improvements in efficiency were measured. A comparative analysis
was employed to measure the performance indicators prior to and after the CT
implementation.
Findings: Continuous testing (CT) substantially enhances
cloud-migration efficiency for P&C insurance. Companies that have had CT in
their version of DevOps have executed a 40-60% increase in software release
cycles, leading to faster deployments. Automated testing dragged
post-deployment issues down by 35%, thereby increasing the reliability of the
software. Compliance with industry requirements was much better because
continuous security checks lessen risks. Another benefit included a reduction
of about 20-30% in testing costs due to automation that replaced human testing.
On top of this, the way for more applications to be resilient to system
failures was opened; applications were supported and maintained. The
post-migration data should always specify that applications have 99.9% uptime.
In the heavily regulated insurance sector, continuous testing thus becomes a
much faster, more secure, and cost-effective measure for moving to the cloud.
Conclusion: The adoption of continuous testing into DevOps for
migration to the cloud disrupted the status quo in many sectors, especially in
property & casualty insurance, banking, entertainment, and aviation.
Author
(s) Details
Pavan
Kumar Gollapudi
Accenture, Aubrey, TX, USA.
Rajkumar
Govindaswamy Subbian
Golden Bear Insurance Company, Prosper, TX, USA.
Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/stda/v7/4704
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