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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

Software robot and their applicability


The applicability of software robots is in the following areas:

  • Process Automation: The process automation can be deployed both in IT and clerical back-office work that involves a rule-based, non-subjective process without compromising the existing IT architecture. In the Business Process, the potential tasks for automation could be back-office tasks in finance, procurement, supply chain management, accounting, customer service, and human resources, including data entry, purchase order issuing, and creation of online access credentials.

  • IT support and management: Automated processes in the remote management of IT infrastructures can investigate and solve problems for a faster process throughout. The software support Robots can improve service desk operations and the monitoring of network devices.

  • Software Test Automation: Any manual testing activities that are data and rules driven can be supplemented with Robotic automation solution. This can be applied...