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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

How replacing testing subcontractors with managed testing services helps


What is managed services is a topic in itself. However, for the purpose of this chapter, let's focus on how managed services resolve the aforementioned challenges about using subcontractors.

Knowledge retention

With managed services, customers benefit from an outsourcing provider with a broad talent pool of multiple skills, possessing the ability to adapt to customer-specific technology needs while providing a seamless and flexible service.

Handover

Outsource service providers have well-established notice periods with staff in the case of separations. If a staff member quits, there is a handover of responsibilities to other identified staff members to ensure project continuity.

Cost of resourcing

When there are resource changes in the team, the provider ensures both knowledge retention and handover to the new member, relieving the customer of the burden to redo the knowledge transfer.

Economies of scale

Outsource service...