Exploration in DevOps and production

- [Instructor] DevOps is another term we won't have time … to fully get into in this course, … but since it's a growing movement, … we should think a bit about how exploratory testing … fits into it. … So with DevOps, the idea is that the development of new code … is tightly coupled with the operation of that code … in production environments. … This leads to a lot of interesting things, … but perhaps one that is the most interest to testers … is the idea of testing in production. … Most of us are used to thinking about testing … as something that we do before we release the code … to the public, but the idea of testing in production … kind of flips that idea on its head a bit. … And the things that we can do in production … can take a few different forms. … It can take the form of actually trying … and using the product on production sites … to see if you can find issues. … The connection of this to exploratory testing … I think is pretty clear, but this isn't often … what's meant by the concept of testing in production. …