Overview

Automation RockStars is an organization gathering people passionate about state-of-the-art automation. We excel in guiding you trough an automation journey regardless if it is oriented on DevOps, Continous Integration or Delivery, Test or Quality. We provide all necessary tools and knowledge so your company succeeds.

How we can help you

Automation RockStars is a one stop shop for all Continuous Development needs.

Trainings

DevOps

Streamlining requirements to production

Level: Beginner
Duration: 2 days + workshop 1 day (optional)
Training covers basics of integration of Continous Integration and Continous Delivery. Based on usage on industry leading practices and tools, we present steps to design and implement automation strategy allowing to succesfully and quickly begin CI/CD and DevOps journey. Training includes preparation of automation plan and strategy and covers in depth steps required to succesfully evolve development lifecycle.
On completion of this training you will know and understand the tools and practices required to implement a pipeline allowing you to deliver software to your customers, in particular:
  • tools and effort required to continously build the software
  • automated testing methodologies on different levels
  • plan and execute the release effort in repeateable fashion
  • implememnt monitoring apporach
DevOps practices and tools

Level: Advanced
Duration: 2 days + workshop 2 days (optional)
Goal of the training is to enable kick-off or improvement of DevOps practices. Focused on Continous Delivery a observability from product and project perspective, we present a set of tools and techniques ensure best customer experience during releasing and production support phases.
You will learn how to measure and improve software developement life cycle, focusing on:
  • establishing metricts of CI/CD stages
  • finding bottlenecks in planning improvement effort
  • providing observability framework based off your monitoring tools
  • facilitating root cause analysis and resolution criteria

DevQaOps

Continous Integration and Continous Deployment with Quality Monitoring

Level: Beginner
Duration: 3 days + workshop 2 day (optional)
Training is focused on gathering and analysing metrics of CI and CD process. It is focusing on implementation steps ensuring monitoring quality of product in each step of the development lifecycle as well as ways to automate analysis and increase quality awarness.
You will learn how to establish and collect metrics leading to promotions decisions. In particular:
  • code change delivery cycle
  • requirements tests coverage with different types of testing e.g. functional, performance, securtiy
  • deployment and delivery lead time
  • release complexity
Continous Quality - observalbility of DevOps process

Level: Intermediate
Duration: 2 days + workshop 1 day (optional)
Goal of the training is to enable existing CI process to automate measurement of quality metrics including: requirement lifespan, functional and non-functional test coverage, deployment stabiliy etc. Such a measurments is key to succesfull quality analysis and improvements strategies. Training also covers monitoring techniques including streamline heart-beat to encourage reqular customer deliveries.
You will learn how to analyse, monitor and report delivery process providing the following KPIs
  • release health
  • delivery bottlenecks
  • environment and deployment trends
Automated feedback of production issues into DevOps process

Level: Advanced
Duration: 2 days + workshop 1 day (optional)
Training presents multiple automation steps allowing to easily reproduce and eliminate production issues. Moreover it covers preparation of framework for failure analysis and continous improvements to decrease issue resolution time.
In the trainings you will learn who to use Businesss Intligence toolset and data mining for issue root cause analysis. In particular:
  • production alerts reocurrance analysis and prevention
  • preventive health checks
  • alerting trends

Quality Automation

BDD practices for testable requirements

Level: Beginner
Duration: 2 days + workshop 2 day (optional)
Goal of the training is to ensure coverage of requirements as well as imporove commuication between BA, Dev and Test. It focuses on BDD practices and toolsets for automation.
You will learn how to succesfully create testable requirements and initiate validation during inception phase. Also how to write user stories that can be understood by all levels of the businessFocusing on:
  • three amigos sessions
  • stories meta data
  • test data managment and marketing personas
Design of requirements driven and test driven test automation

Level: Intermediate
Duration: 2 days + workshop 2 day (optional)
Training focuses on practices that enable test automation starting from story inception. It contains set of principles and guidelines to validate requirements and convert them to test cases.
You will learn how to establish and collect metrics leading to promotions decisions. In particular:
  • identification of test data
  • creation of re-usable steps
  • creation of easy-to-maintain mappings to system-under tests
  • test automation patterns and best practices
Tracing of test automation coverage from requirements to deployment

Level: Advanced
Duration: 2 days + workshop 1 day (optional)
Goal of the training is to ensure continuity of technical requirements passing though the Software Devlopment Life Cycle. The main focus is oriented on providing and ensuing meta data that allows instant quality evaluation and go/no go decision.
You will learn how to establish and collect metrics leading to promotions decisions. In particular:
  • establishing meta-data
  • creating mappings for tracing coverage between systems
  • establishing, maintaining and automating promotion criteria
  • establishing highly

Bespoke Trainings and Workshops

With our extensive experience we can provide trainings tailored precisely to your company needs. You can choose from a wide selection of topics. We will prepare matrials and practical workshops in your development environment allowing you to build a basis for a succesfull DevOps and Quality Automation journey.
Please contact us for more information on bespoke trainings.

Consultancy

DevOps Strategy preparation and adjustment

Designing implementation strategy

Supporting DevOps journey

Open source

Armor

Services

Automation RockStars is providing IT consultancy service in area of automation of build, deployment and testing process of software products.

We also deliver series of specialized QA trainings for companies. The in-house trainings are based on consultancy model and can be delivered as workshops on individual basis.

CI and GitHub

Automation RockStars project is hosted on GitHub where you can find source code, issue tracker, and some further documentation.

The binary distribution is available in Bintray. CI build and release status of Automation RockStars is accessible on Travis CI.

Automation RockStars is open source software released under Apache License 2.0, and all the libraries and tools in the ecosystem are also open source. The development of the core framework is supported by Automation RockStars partnership company.

Automation RockStars

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