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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

Benefits of test environment automation


The benefits of test environment automation cover the ranges cited in the following points:

  • 30-40% reduction in time to market, thanks to an improved provisioning cycle time

  • Up to 50% reduction in manual health check efforts

  • 20-30% enhanced environment efficiency through 30% reduction in IT service request fulfillment

  • 30-40% reduced cost of operations

Additional qualitative benefits of environment management automation include the following ones:

  • Elimination of errors due to manual interventions and delays due to dependencies

  • Zero tolerance with respect to continuous availability of the environment

  • Consistent and accurate environments through automated configuration updates

  • Optimum utilization of infrastructure assets through better license management

  • Availability of the environment as a service model