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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

What must testers prepare for when testing applications on cloud


In the past few years, IT has witnessed an evolution of virtualization in the form of cloud computing. Any novice to cloud must picture cloud computing as a model that views everything as a service. The following are the firm requirements of testing application on cloud:

Testing the invisible

Testing on the cloud demands a fundamental change in the tester's mindset. The confidence and reassurance provided by on premise solutions is no longer available. The tester now needs to test something that cannot be seen but exists somewhere in the network. Also, testers do not have the liberty or convenience of making hardware and software changes as before. Therefore, careful planning and collaboration with the cloud support team is crucial. Following this changed perspective, testers must be better prepared to both test and address the ambiguities that come from not being able to see the platforms that host the applications under test...