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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

Services factories


A factory in a traditional manufacturing world visualizes a location where a set of workers performs tasks on their respective production lines.

In Services factories, developers or testers leverage a set of technologies and platforms in compliance with industrialized processes and adopt productivity-enhancing accelerators to deliver agreed outcomes.

Services factories typically offer the promise of improving the quality of service at a reduced cost and exceeding its customer's expectations. The key value levers used in a service factory include the following:

  • People's skill and competencies

  • Repeatable and consistent processes

  • Predesigned and preconfigured tools and technologies

  • Accelerated methods of carrying out tasks

  • Maturing delivery models with platforms that are scalable and flexible according to client needs