# Making Operational Readiness Testing Continuous with Harness

DevFeed: [Making Operational Readiness Testing Continuous with Harness](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/improvise-operational-readiness-testing-ort-with-harness-13427.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.harness.io/blog/improvise-your-operational-readiness-testing-ort-with-harness>)

Author: Uma Mukkara

Published: 2026-09-08T17:57:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Harness Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/harness-blog.md>)

Topics: [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [sdlc](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdlc.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>)

Tags: [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [harness](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/harness.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [sdlc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdlc.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that Operational Readiness Testing should be continuous rather than a one-time pre-release checklist. It describes how Harness Resilience Testing can apply ongoing checks to services as dependencies, configuration, deployments, and operating conditions change.

## Source excerpt

Harness makes Operational Readiness Testing continuous, applying resilience checks to every SDLC change. | Blog