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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

DevOps QA benchmarking — why and what?


To understand the current state of maturity of the organization to adapt to DevOps practices is important in ensuring successful implementation of DevOps. A baseline assessment helps to understand the challenges (such as those stated in the preceding section) to be acknowledged and addressed before an organization can embark on the DevOps journey, for those who have already embarked on the journey, such assessment helps to progress further in achieving a higher state of DevOps maturity.

The DevOps QA benchmarking framework assesses the maturity of the testing processes in a DevOps environment and helps us to develop a roadmap for envisioned end state.

Key DevOps practices (as against traditional IT) include the following:

  • Use of an integrated Quality approach

  • Build quality engineering teams in DevOps

  • Implement Behavior-Driven and Test-Driven Development

  • Automate, Automate, Automate, to enable a Zero-touch continuous automated testing

  • Virtualize test environment...