Does QA have a place in DevOps? Heck yeah!

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Argues that QA belongs inside DevOps and gives concrete practices: automation is a must with manual testing limited to exploratory, tests run inside CI/CD pipelines, and cleanup jobs to restore testable environments; testers learn deployment scripts and infrastructure and focus on service warranty metrics — incidents in production, defects escaped, and deploy cadence; recommends specification by example (given when then) and cites Etsy and Netflix as useful case studies.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:05What is DevOps
3. 1:20What is DevOps Ops
4. 1:35What is the warranty
5. 2:05QA strategies
6. 2:20Automation
7. 2:35Bugs
8. 3:05Checklist
9. 3:35QA Ready
10. 3:50Automation Coverage
11. 4:05Continuous Process Improvement
12. 4:50Feedback loops
13. 5:05Case studies

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