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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

Chapter 26. On-Demand Performance Testing on Self-Service Environments

Today, more and more companies are joining the bandwagon of embracing cloud strategies fueled by digital and DevOps initiatives to achieve agility and cost reduction. This has triggered the need for the right strategy to drive security and performance testing on cloud. The importance of testing strategy in the context of Digital and DevOps on cloud has assumed importance as well.

The digital-savvy organizations are leveraging on-demand, ready-to-use test environments to drive the capital expense intensive performance testing. The need to cut costs and reduce the cycle time is driving the organizations to conduct performance tests on the on-demand cloud-based environments. This, in turn, is opening up opportunities for end-to-end on-demand testing platforms packaged to drive mobile testing, performance testing, and SaaS testing activities.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Key challenges in on-demand...