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Testing Practitioner Handbook

By : Renu Rajani
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Testing Practitioner Handbook

By: Renu Rajani

Overview of this book

The book is based on the author`s experience in leading and transforming large test engagements and architecting solutions for customer testing requirements/bids/problem areas. It targets the testing practitioner population and provides them with a single go-to place to find perspectives, practices, trends, tools, and solutions to test applications as they face the evolving digital world. This book is divided into five parts where each part explores different aspects of testing in the real world. The first module explains the various testing engagement models. You will then learn how to efficiently test code in different life cycles. The book discusses the different aspects of Quality Analysis consideration while testing social media, mobile, analytics, and the Cloud. In the last module, you will learn about futuristic technologies to test software. By the end of the book, you will understand the latest business and IT trends in digital transformation and learn the best practices to adopt for business assurance.
Table of Contents (56 chapters)
Testing Practitioner Handbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

The importance of automation in DevOps


The foundation of DevOps incorporates built-in automation in the software development life cycle from as early as the requirements phase till the fag end of operations:

  • Manual static testing of requirements is now being replaced by Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) and/or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

  • ATDD and BDD using Cucumber, Fitnesse or RSpec help in documenting requirements, while also automating them

  • This automation is accomplished by Software Development Engineers in Testing (SDETs), who possess both development and testing skills

  • While BDD is taking place, the development team can use xUnit tools such as NUnit or JUnit to work on the Test-Driven Development (TDD)

  • All these tests can be integrated with the Continuous Integration (CI) server in order to initiate test execution along with build creation in the pre-deployment phase

Such techniques bring in the Shift Left approach to quality where a thorough requirements testing and unit testing...