Zero-Friction Sprints

Self-Healing Testing and Trunk-Based Development for Quality Engineering
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 979-8-8688-3511-7
Verlag: APRESS L.P.

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Quality engineering often slows down modern delivery. Teams move fast with Agile, CI/CD, and rapid iteration, yet testing still struggles to keep pace. Long test cycles, fragile automation, and late feedback create friction in every sprint. Zero-Friction Sprints presents a practical path to remove that friction and build quality systems that scale with delivery speed.

This book is built as a hands-on playbook drawn from production systems at enterprise scale. It focuses on the patterns teams use to keep quality aligned with fast releases across mobile, video, API, and DevOps workflows. You learn how to design in-sprint testing that fits a two-week cadence, combine AI-assisted test creation with reliable automation, and use trunk-based development with feature flags to keep releases moving without breaking stability.

The book walks through core practices such as mobile automation strategies, video and streaming validation, AI-assisted test authoring, and advanced automation design patterns. It explains how to integrate DevSecOps into the same pipeline as functional testing and how to build dashboards that turn test results into clear engineering decisions. Later chapters connect these ideas into complete reference architectures for large-scale quality systems.

Each chapter draws from real production scenarios, with working code, pipeline examples, and tool integrations that reflect how teams operate in practice. By the end of the book you will have learned how to build systems that give fast feedback, reduce maintenance overhead, and support continuous delivery without compromise.

What You Will Learn

• Design in-sprint automation with parallel execution and intelligent test selection
• Use AI tools to accelerate test creation while maintaining reliability
• Implement trunk-based development with CI/CD pipelines and feature flags
• Integrate DevSecOps practices into testing workflows
  

Who This Book Is For

Senior QA engineers, SDETs, test architects, engineering managers, and technical leads responsible for quality in fast-moving, large-scale software delivery environments.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Samal, Partha Sarathi

Palus, Suresh Kumar

Zandi, Behrang

Padmam, Sai Kiran

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering Softwaretests & Prüfsoftware

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Mobile Testing Strategies for Sprints.- 2. Video Automation Testing in Sprints.- 3. Trunk-Based Development and Its Role in Zero-Friction Sprints.- 4. Test Creation, Execution, and Reporting in Sprints.- 5. Advanced Automation Strategies.- 6. DevSecOps Integration.- 7. Reporting and Metrics.- 8. Localization and Internationalization Testing.- 9. Integration with Tools and Platforms.- 10. Reference Architectures and Practical Implementations.

Über Autor(innen)

Partha Sarathi Samal is a Manager of Quality Engineering at Paramount, where he leads a team of 10+ engineers building AI-driven test automation and streaming-media quality infrastructure across mobile, API, and video workloads. He holds two granted U.S. patents assigned to Paramount (US12482498B1, US12482499) within an 8-patent portfolio in test automation, self-healing systems, and AI-assisted QA. He is a 10-time hackathon winner, a four-time recipient of the Paramount Innovation Award and was named one of PractiTest's Top 22 Global QA Leaders. His work has been featured in Quality Matters Magazine, the USPTO Official Gazette, on a Times Square billboard, and through Targeted News Service syndication. He has chaired sessions and delivered keynotes at the ICIRAIDS and ICCTAIADS international conferences, peer-reviewed 40+ academic papers, and serves as an industry mentor for Rutgers University's 4WARD program. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Scholars and a member of the Open-Source Initiative, LambdaTest Spartans community, and BrowserStack Champions program. He has published in IJSEA, IJFLS, and SSRN, and co-authored an Amazon #1 bestseller in Software Testing.

Suresh Kumar Palus is an Automation Lead at Paramount with deep expertise in end-to-end test framework design, CI/CD pipeline engineering, and cross-platform automation at enterprise scale. He is a co-inventor on multiple Paramount patents in quality automation and has led automation strategy across web, mobile, and API surfaces for streaming products serving tens of millions of subscribers.

Behrang Zandi is a Senior Quality Engineer at Paramount specializing in video and streaming-media quality, automated playback validation, and Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement. He is a co-inventor on Paramount patents covering video automation methodology and has built production telemetry pipelines integrating Conviva, New Relic, and Datadog into test workflows.

Sai Kiran Padmam is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Paramount focused on CI/CD architecture, trunk-based development at scale, and infrastructure automation. He is a co-inventor on Paramount patents in deployment automation and has designed the pipeline patterns and feature-flag governance models discussed throughout this book.