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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

Trends in the use of crowdsourced testing


Quality is considered implicit these days. Consequently, concentration is shifting to how project testing costs can be optimized and how time to market can be improved as a measure of testing success. the World Quality Report, 2016-17, (WQR2016) cites that 42 % of IT executives want cost optimization from their respective QA functions, and 37 % of them desire faster time to market. Weekend testing can help meet these objectives and lower the cost of testing for vendors (by employing weekend testers) as well as for the customer.

Weekend testing is a form of crowdsourcing. WQR2016 has studied the use of crowdsourcing by respondents. The primary focus on achieving maximum cost efficiency in the form of operational test factory models and captive Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) is moving toward a demand for more flexible, nimble, and easily accessible TCOE models, such as crowdsourcing. It is interesting to note that amid the shift, organizations...