Web applications are something every company has and needs to secure. We see headlines announcing the latest breach, yet this doesn’t slow the pace to move business process to web applications. Gone are the days when a perimeter firewall was all a company needed to secure their applications. As changing business needs drive applications into the cloud, security needs change as well. In order to protect their vital applications, organizations must invest in robust applications protection model allowing for rapid development and repeatable security to protect the applications that drive modern business.

Increased visibility, process safety and integrity, risk mitigation — these are just a few of the secure business outcomes required by mature OT/IoT security programs. A security operations center, or SOC, seeks to monitor all systems on an ongoing basis. In this age of rapidly advancing technology, this is no easy task. WWT has a deep understanding of OT/IoT security: how people, process, and technology logically come together to transform an organization.

<p><b>Test automation</b> is a critical part of any modern software development. Within WWT, we use it extensively from automated unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, performance testing, load test — and the list goes on. Test automation is not easy, especially if your organization isn’t prepared for it. Whether executed in the cloud or on-premise, it takes a robust infrastructure and tooling capability along with the people who know how to wield it.</p> <p><b>Success</b> in test automation requires a clear strategic and architectural vision that drives desired business outcomes. This strategy must address an iterative approach to defining governance, managing data, creating test infrastructure and defining tests. It is executed by a multidisciplinary team composed of Software Engineering, QA, Infrastructure and DevOps. A successful test automation program also requires smart capital investments in the right infrastructure and tools to effectively and efficiently reach these business outcomes.</p> <p><b>In this briefing</b>, we will explore with you the landscape of test automation and what is needed to be successful based on our 20+ years of hands-on experience at the leading edge of software development.</p>