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Automate tests in application life cycle management

Hey community,

I have the above environment deployed in my company.

A DEV environment where the application is being developed during the Sprint (two-week sprint). At the end of the Sprint, the code is exported inside the DevOps, and deployed into QA (we use this environment to test the integration of the application with the other ones). When the application is validated by the developers in the QA, it moves into UAT (for business users' acceptance). After being validated in UAT, we move into production.

We are planning to integrate automated (Selenium) tests into this pipeline. My Idea is:

Scenario 1:
For every new change made during the sprint, one person or group of specialized testers will automate this test.
By doing so, we will be able to execute the last version of the test base, against the last version of the application after deploying the code to QA.
Then deploy the QA version to UAT and execute the business acceptance (usually manual).
Clone the production environment, disable the external integrations (Sharepoint Sites, Emails,...), and deploy the validated version from QA + UAT into the cloned environment.
Execute the same test base against the cloned environment, and remove the cloned environment.
If everything goes well, we will be sure that the production deployment will be a success.

Cons: This will require a capable team of testers to avoid delays in the sprint.

I would like to hear the community's opinion.

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