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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

Service virtualization and DevOps


Service virtualization is the process of simulating the behavior of select components within an application to enable end-to-end testing of the application as a whole. Application development teams can use virtual services in lieu of the production or real services to conduct integration testing earlier in the development process.

Virtualized test assets look and act like the real thing but may be duplicated and available at times when the real assets are not available to the testing team. Virtualizing your test assets enables your organization to create robust test frameworks that can provide comprehensive test coverage while keeping costs low.

There are different ways to define DevOps; some of the industry terminologies are listed here:

  • A software development method that stresses communication, collaboration, and integration between development and IT professionals

  • A set or mix of principles, practices, methods, or concepts

  • A combination of development and...