Specification and Verification constitute the activities performed by a DevOps team that determine and communicate what is valuable within a product, both functionally and non-functionally, from the customers’ perspective and ensuring the delivery of the desired value. Being end-to-end responsible with the whole team to deliver value makes these activities an essential skill set of a DevOps Professional.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how the tasks covering specification and verification fit into a DevOps environment.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for your product – from concept to grave.
• Truly understand your customers and validate whether the product fits their needs.
• Find good ways to communicate with everyone involved, from customers to stakeholders and developers.
• Describe and visualize your product in a format that fits your specific situation.
• Understand what software quality means and how to achieve adequate quality with your product.
• Decide adequately which kind of tests the product needs, and understand what you gain from them.
• Set up useful feedback loops, and use them meaningfully.
• Understand which architectural considerations are important in a DevOps environment.