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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

Background – software regression testing


Regression testing is carried out to ensure that a system or an Application Under Test (AUT) behaves as expected after enhancements or bug fixes. Testing activities occur after software changes and regression testing usually refers to testing activities completed during the software maintenance phase. The key objectives of regression testing include retesting the changed components or parts and then checking the affected parts and components. Regression testing is performed at different levels—unit, integration, functional, and system.

Regression testing is needed for various reasons, such as the following ones:

  • Incremental code changes in a project or release

  • Major releases or projects going live

  • Emergency production fixes

  • Configuration and environment changes