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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

Need for a robust IoT test strategy


IOT technology, in the form of digital disruption, has entered the enterprise space at such a pace that companies do not have robust enough strategies to rigorously test the related hardware and software. Moreover, the huge volume of data getting captured and sent through IOT devices to the backend makes the system prone to performance bottlenecks.

An example could be your fitbit health device that captures your daily activity, food, and other health goals that you set up. Two key areas (among many others) that you would surely be concerned with are:

  • Whether it captures the body movements accurately to count activity and calories consumed through the activity

  • The performance of application when you synchronize the device with the application on server, especially considering that thousands of other users might be concurrently synchronizing their devices

As companies are pulling in technology from different sources, it becomes even more difficult to build a...