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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

Agile is about speed


The drivers for the increased use of agile include:

  • Excessively long time-to-market for products and applications

  • Inadequate customer orientation and regular interaction

  • Over-engineered products—most of the features on a product or application may not be used

  • High project failure rate

  • ROI below expectations

  • Inability to respond quickly to change

  • Inadequate software quality

The key digital trends that have caused an increased use of agile include:

  • More continuous integration fueled by digital transformation

  • Complex integration using multichannel and omnipresent commerce, making it necessary to integrate multiple channels, devices, and wearable technology

In agile engagements, one knows the time and resources available and needs to estimate the features that can go into a release. Two popular modes of agile include:

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

  • Kanban (pinpoints bottlenecks to avoid hold-ups)

Agile engagements follow sprints...