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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

QA organizations would follow hybrid QA teams (centralized and decentralized)


In this section, we will discuss the future organization of QA teams.

As per WQR2015, the use of internal independent industrialized test TCOE stabilized and would see decline.

Use of a combination of centralized and decentralized teams (Hybrid) for QA grew from 35% in 2013-14 to 43% in 2014-15.

WQR 2015 reported 24% respondents citing plans to have internal TCOE as against 24% in 2014-15 and 23% in 2013-14.

A total of 18% cited no plan for TCOE in 2015-16 as against 20% in 2014-15 and 26% in 2013-14.

A total of 11% cited plans to use third-party TCOE in 2015-16, as against 15% in 2014-15 and 19% in 2013-14.

Trend towards Hybrid QA teams – point of view

The preceding observations point to a need for testers to work with developers through life cycle—shift-left as well as shift-right. Use of dedicated TCOEs will not continue to rise as in the past and shall need to scale to provide services in platform as service model...