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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

Best practices to adopt early and continuously automate


Like any other practice, automation requires some basic tenets to be in place for it to be successful. Some of them are as follows:

  • Treating automation as any other development work

  • Quality engineering

  • Coupling of development, automation, and test teams

  • Selecting the right solution

Treating automation as any other development work

Since automation becomes the engine to run DevOps seamlessly, it is critical to maintain a similar discipline. Automation should be treated as any other development work. Starting with the framework design to coding standards, to code reviews and unit testing of the code/scripts, the team should be aligned and should sign up to follow the best practices, whatsoever. Any new work would easily mold itself into the implementation framework, reducing the ramping up and initiation efforts. This will have a direct and positive impact on the ROI.

Quality engineering

Start automation as early as possible, thus moving the...