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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

Automation – the default practice


Making automation a default and implicit practice in an agile and DevOps environment helps in ensuring the following:

  • The existing functionality, if broken by any new code check-in, is called out and reported immediately

  • The developer is notified and is required to fix it as it happens

  • The coverage of testing grows as the existing functionality gets validated by automated scripts on daily and nightly builds

  • The test team can focus on validating new functionality, thus, increasing the velocity of development

While TDD, ATDD, BDD, and service virtualization, all focus on the inside-out view of testing, the test-after approach calls for parallel independent testing that looks at the outside-in aspect of the software.

To ensure that the pace and quality of agile development and testing is maintained in a DevOps implementation framework, refer to the following points:

  • Automated execution of a minimal set of features in every testable build is advised

  • The functionality...