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What Is the Difference between DevOps and Agile?

by Hruska William Best Software Testing Company In Canada

Agile and DevOps methodology has transformed the way how a business develops and delivers a quality product to end-user. These methodologies have brought developers and testers together and have brought a major cultural shift in organizations. Not only these practices have improved the culture of organizations but also have helped teams to deliver high-quality product faster to end-users. In this article, we will see what exactly is DevOps and agile, and how these methodologies are different from each other.

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What is agile methodology?

It is a practice that promotes continuous iteration of development and testing throughout the software development lifecycle. In this methodology, both development and testing activities occur concurrently unlike waterfall methodology where testing is done only after the development is complete.

What is DevOps methodology?

It is an evolution from agile methodology and is an enterprise software development approach that emphasizes collaboration and communication between cross-functional teams. This methodology aims to break traditional silos that existed earlier between cross-functional teams in the waterfall model. This methodology involves continuous development, continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous delivery of software.

What is the difference between DevOps and Agile?

Point of difference

DevOps

Agile

Definition

It is a cultural shift that brings developers and IT operations teams together to improve the SDLC process. It uses CI/CD tools to ensure frequent integration, testing, and delivery of the software

 

It is a software development approach that emphasizes concurrent development and testing of software. It focuses on customer feedbacks, iterations or changes, small and rapid  releases

Primary Purpose

Its primary purpose is to break traditional silos that existed earlier between cross-functional teams and to  encourage them to work in close collaboration with each other by enabling continuous integration and  continuous delivery

 

Its primary purpose is to help teams to manage    complex projects easily by involving customer in the SDLC process so that they can give feedback and suggestion to developers and testers

Lifecycle Phases /process flow

The agile process flow includes – Concept, Inception, Iteration/construction, Release, Production, Retirement

DevOps lifecycle phases include-  Continuous Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Monitoring

 

Teams

 

Agile focuses on keeping small teams with minimum people in one team to speed up the process

 

 

In DevOps, team size is relatively big as it combines cross-functional teams into one team

 

 

 

Tools

 

Jira, Kanboard, Bugzilla are some of the commonly used agile tools

 

 

Git, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, are some of the commonly used DevOps tools

 

Feedback

 

In Agile, feedback comes from customers directly

 

 

In DevOps, feedback comes from internal teams

 

Conclusion: Agile and DevOps methodology has helped teams all across the globe to deliver value to end-user. Agile methodology focuses on keeping teams small and making rapid changes to roll out products that deliver maximum value to customers whereas on other hand DevOps aims at breaking barriers between the team and allows them to work in close collaboration with each other to deliver products quickly without compromising on its quality. Many organizations have benefited by adopting these methodologies.

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