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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

Weekend testing – modus operandi


Weekend testing is about testers signing on to collaboration platforms, such as Skype or Google Talk, and getting started with testing at a specified time, as announced on the weekend testing website. In the group of testers, a tester assumes the role of a facilitator to bring seriousness to the mission for the session.

The bugs discovered in the course of testing are logged in a source bug database (such as Bugzilla) and followed by a debrief session. The session transcript is then posted with the results for everyone to see and analyze. The results are also shared with the client, as per the testing assignment. Weekend testing thrives on the use of open source and free tools. With so many willing, skilled, and available testers, weekend testing has become a popular forum from which testers learn, network, and earn money. With a wide variety of products to test and a myriad of testing missions to try out, there is something new to learn from every session...