I am sharing resources I had gathered when curating a community website on testing in continuous delivery that I don’t have access to anymore here. This isn’t pretty, but I hope to find time later (sometime when my vision is not impaired by my various eye problems) to improve it.
First of all, check out Abby Bangser’s blog for so much great insight on observability, site reliability engineering and more. For example, here is a great list of resources and insights from Abby to help testers learn how to get started with observability.

ARTICLES, EXTERNAL BLOG POSTS, FORUMS AND MORE
General Testing, DevOps, CD, Observability…:
- “They aren’t pillars, they’re lenses“, Danyel Fisher
- “Beep, beep! Pager Duty caller, Pager Duty caller!”, Jessica Greene
- “How to get into SRE“, Alice Goldfuss
- “Continuous Compliance“, Dave Farley (and see all his other blog posts too!)
- “Understanding Observability”, Sanjeev Sharma
- “Defining Platform Engineering vs. SRE from a testers vocabulary”, Abby Bangser
- “Learning from production use”, Lisa Crispin
- “Power Hour: Operability“, Rob Meaney, Ministry of Testing Club
- “Use Testing to Develop Better Software Faster“, Marit van Dijk
- “Developing a Culture of Observability“, Honeycomb.io (requires name and email info)
- “Baby steps into tracing“, Abby Bangser
- “Why you should be testing in production“, Kristin Jackvony
- “Testing in Production: the hard parts“, Cindy Sridharan
- “I test in production“, Charity Majors, increment.com
- “Accelerate: 2019 State of DevOps Report“, Dr. Nicole Forsgren
- “Continuous testing and continuous delivery in a DevOps world“, Ashley Hunsberger
- “Tracing our pipelines“, Abby Bangser
- “Building resilient APIs with chaos engineering“, Joyce Lin
- “Power Hour: Stuck or Need Guidance on DevOps or Observability“, Ministry of Testing forum Q&A with Abby Bangser
- “Quality at the Speed of DevOps“, Part 1 of a series by Brendon Connolly
- “Logging, Monitoring and Alerting“, by Kristin Jackvony
- “DevTestOps according to the experts” by Lisa Crispin
- “Testing in production, the safe way” by Cindy Sridharan – has a lot of the terminology that will help!
- “Monitoring and Observability” by Cindy Sridharan
- “No Fear: How to test software in production“, Amber Race
- “Continuous Testing” (includes links to more good resources) by Jez Humble
- “How Continuous Delivery Impacts Testing“, interview with Jeff Morgan
- “A Tester’s Story of Adapting to the New World of Pipelines“, by Parveen Khan
- “Does the DevOps tester really exist? Maybe, with some work“, by Justin Rorhman
- “The Road to DevOps: How enterprises can meet the challenge“, by Christian Paulus
- “Why So Much Talk Around DevOps Culture?“, Federico Toledo
- “Q&A: David Farley on Everything Test Teams Need to Know“, LogiGear Magazine
- “The world of DevOps can make a newbie’s head spin“, InformationWeek, interview with Peter Varhol and others
- “DevOps/QA Era has Started!” by SP Sankar
- “From QA to Engineering Productivity“, Ari Shamash
- DevOps Topologies website
- “DevOps = Dev + Error Budget + Ops“, Jack Shirazi
- “DevOps-QA era has been started“, QOrigin’s Blog
- “Continuous Testing Using Shift Left Testing Approach“, Homanshu Sheth
- The Human Value in Automation-Driven DevOps Testing“, Komal Lopez
ML apps and testing in DevOps / CD
- “Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning“, Danilo Sato et al
Test automation:
- “Serverless Framework – AWS Lambda Guide – Testing” , Serverless.com
- “How to automate your tests with Travis CI“, Stephen Smith
- “How do you know test automation isn’t working?” Dennis Martinez – check out more publications on his DevTester website.
Exploratory and other manual testing:
- “The Place of Manual Testing in DevOps“, by Chelsea Frischknecht
- “Session-based Testing in an Agile/DevOps Environment“, by Lalitkumar Bhamare
- “Exploratory Testing: It’s All About Discovery“, Garima Tiwari
- “Exploratory Testing: Expanding Testing Across the Delivery Cycle“, Ingo Philipp
Testability

BOOKS
A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps, Katrina Clokie
Team Guide to Software Operability, Matthew Skelton, Alex Moore and Rob Thatcher
Continuous Delivery, Jez Humble and David Farley
Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Measuring Continuous Delivery, Steve Smith
DevOps for Developers, Michael Hüttermann
The DevOps Handbook, Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis
Developer Testing: Building Quality into Software, Alexander Tarlinder