# Where to automate resilience testing in your SDLC

DevFeed: [Where to automate resilience testing in your SDLC](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/where-to-automate-resilience-testing-in-your-sdlc-11740.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/where-to-automate-resilience-testing-in-your-sdlc>)

Author: Ryan Detwiller

Published: 2024-04-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [Chaos Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chaos-engineering.md>), [sdlc](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdlc.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [chaos-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chaos-engineering.md>), [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [sdlc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdlc.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [tools-and-integrations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools-and-integrations.md>), [verification](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/verification.md>), [verify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/verify.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains where to automate resilience testing within the SDLC. It distinguishes exploratory Chaos Engineering experiments, which have unknown outcomes and should generally begin as manual tests, from verification tests, which validate known failure scenarios and are suitable for automation. It discusses integrating resilience testing with CI/CD and release automation, while noting that production scheduling, deployment frequency, system goals, and staging-to-production similarity affect the appropriate approach.

## Source excerpt

When organizations begin to deploy resilience testing or Chaos Engineering, there's a natural question: can we integrate this with our CI/CD pipeline or release automation tools? The short answer is yes. Integration is possible, but resiliency is different, so automation is a nuanced conversation.