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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

Flavors of agile


There are various flavors of agile, including the following:

  • Scrum: This prioritizes the highest-value features and incremental delivery once every 2-4 weeks

  • Kanban: This pinpoints bottlenecks to avoid holdups

  • Lean: This eliminates waste and unnecessary documentation and provides future flexibility

  • XP: This reconfigures and ensures the simplest design to deliver iteration features

Let’s look at the features of each one of the preceding points.

Scrum

  • Reacts quickly in volatile markets

  • Focuses on customer benefits and avoids both unnecessary outlays and time investments

  • Utilizes organized development teams within a structured framework in order to coordinate activities and work together for quick decision-making

  • Involves customers directly in the development process

Kanban

  • Works with existing roles and processes and may be introduced either step by step or by establishing pioneer teams.

  • Scrum and Kanban complement one another. While Scrum ensures adaptability and agility Kanban improves...