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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

Implementing RPA for mobile testing


Mobile testing challenges include the given ones:

  • Testing across browsers

  • Fragmentation caused by multiple varieties of handsets with different OS versions

  • Increased frequency of newer OS versions and patch releases

  • Heterogeneity based on screen size, OEM, operators, and so on

  • Unavailability of the required device when needed

  • Unavailability of all required devices in in-house or service provider labs, such as device anywhere

  • Identifying an optimal combination of the required devices/OSes/browsers to optimize the testing efforts

  • Variety of Mobile Application categories—Native, Web, and Hybrid

Take a look at the following block diagram:

Let's discuss how these challenges are addressed by applying RPA:

  • Optimizing the device coverage: Are We Testing On the Right Devices and Platforms?, is the question often application developers, testers, and product managers ask. The optimal coverage of devices/OSes/browsers for a given application type or site can be derived with...