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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 trends from World Quality Report


Organizations are adopting Agile and DevOps at a very fast pace. As we discussed in Chapter 7, Testing in Agile Development and the State of Agile Adoption ,and Chapter 8, Agile and DevOps Adoption are Gaining Momentum, as per WQR2016, only 12% of CIO respondents said that they were not using DevOps in their projects. Refer to the following graph:

Projects using DevOps principles

The WQR2016 report also talks about new approaches to increase the quality of DevOps, which includes leveraging predictive analytics, using a cloud based testing environment with virtualization, combining shift-left and shift-right, and focusing on the mixed skill set of DevOps and Agile development. From the past few years, ChatOps is also emerging as one of the promising accelerators for DevOps. ChatOps—Background and Need.

In past the few years, DevOps has evolved at a very fast pace and the whole IT industry is confidently banking on it as it provides a unique combination...