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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

Conclusion


In this chapter, we considered data points about an increased split of QA effort in development projects as against production support. This aligns with the need for more QA in new development projects associated with digital transformation. We also considered the trend of increased QA effort in the design phase, which aligns with the need for Shift-Left and Shift-Right principles in the DevOps life cycle.

We considered data points relating to the future of centralized with regard to the decentralized models of QA and concluded that the future will see the use of hybrid models. Organizations will continue to use MTS and Centralized COEs for business as usual functions to carry out QA efficiently. For the digital transformation initiatives and projects in the Agile/DevOps life cycle, the projects will carry out testing in the decentralized mode. Distributed Agile is an option that is also considered.

We then discussed future testing engagement models with a 3-plateau approach to...