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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

Challenges organizations face in implementing DevOps


So we agree, there is business case for DevOps adaption, and it provides the required agility to businesses in today’s fast-paced business environment. Is it easy then for an organization to implement DevOps? We need to know the challenges and be prepared. As per WQR2016, some of the challenges (the percentages of respondents citing the challenge are in parentheses) in adapting DevOps include:

  • Insufficient speed in testing due to insufficient levels of test automation (39%)

  • Difficulty in identifying the right areas on which the test should focus (33%)

  • Lack of appropriate test environments and data (31%)

  • Lack of professional test and quality expertise in teams (31%)

  • Lack of good testing approach that fits with the DevOps approach (29%)

  • Difficulty to reuse and repeat tests across iterations (29%)