For many enterprises, the ability to rapidly develop, deploy, and integrate new software and features is essential to the overall success of an organization. Managing all those moving parts requires workflow procedures that cross traditionally separate departments and can be accomplished only with effective communication and cooperation.

These workflow procedures are referred to as DevOps, which is a mash-up of two terms: ‘software development’ and ‘information technology operations.’

The DevOps terms listed here, written by Mark W. Kaelin and Madeline Clarke for TechRepublic Premium, will give you a working vocabulary and a head start toward developing your own DevOps system.

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  Black box testing

  A software approach for testing and quality assurance, where the internal workings of the software are unknown to the tester. Its goal is to validate that the software meets its specified external requirements rather than verifying its internal behavior.

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