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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

Key challenges associated while working with subcontractors


  • Difficulty in retaining knowledge: Subcontractors are not encouraged to document and handover knowledge. Usually, this is not even an expected Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for them. The current demand is for customers to work with an organization that can provide a mature and proven knowledge management system with world class tools. Proper documentation of knowledge has enabled organizations to create many reusable assets that will help reduce time during delivery and time to market in the future.

  • Lack of handover: The 5-10 day notice period for releasing subcontractors does not allow for a sufficient handover of deliverables. Effective handover processes are also not employed during the handover, consequently impacting project delivery.

  • Delayed response to market dynamics: Technology transitions in the field of Information Technology are quite common and an IT organization should be able to quickly respond to these transitions...