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Testing Practitioner Handbook

By : Renu Rajani
Book Image

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

Chapter 14. Automating Configuration Management for DevOps Test Environments

As we discussed in the earlier chapters, use of DevOps is on the rise. DevOps practices enable faster time to market, which is the need of the hour in digital businesses.

DevOps engagements need Test Environments provisioned in a timely manner and with less setup and lead time. It is recommended that the environment configuration management process be automated.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Need to automate the test environment configuration process

  • Types of Test Environments

  • Challenge of Configuration and Environment Management on the Cloud

  • Potential solutions for automated Configuration Management

  • The benefits of Automated Configuration Management