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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

Career options in testing services


Testing professionals can choose from various career paths—technical, architect, consulting, and project management—to move forward in their careers. The Social media, Mobility, Analytics, and Cloud (SMAC) world today has made QA even more important. The cost of failure in the digital world today is very high, particularly when one includes the reputational damages, which have made robust QA processes essential. The agile and DevOps world has not eliminated the need for testing; rather, such testing is carried out in sprints, with increased sprints driving the need for more testing and automation. The testing profession has continued to adapt to the rapidly changing needs of dynamic business and the various development methodologies used.

Practitioners in testing services can progress their careers by doing the following:

  • Cultivating knowledge in a diverse set of testing solutions, processes, tools, methods, architectures, and disciplines.

  • Applying industry...