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Testing Practitioner Handbook

By : Renu Rajani
Book Image

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

An illustration – new technologies in retail


We discussed business trends and emerging technologies in supply chain. Let's take an example of the retail industry and applicable technologies.

The following list provides a hype cycle:

  • Innovation trigger

  • Peak of inflated expectations

  • Trough of disillusionment

  • Slope of enlightenment

  • Plateau of productivity

As can be seen from the following image, most of the technologies in retail would have their plateau either in 2-5 years or in 5-10 years:

Source: Gartner Hype Cycle of Retail Technologies