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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

Introduction and journey of analytics


Algorithmic business, an advanced version of analytics, has emerged as the next big thing. Analytics strengthen an organization's understanding of the customers' needs, likes, and dislikes. To fuel these studies, organizations are collecting data from numerous physical and virtual sensors through initiatives, such as digital transformation and Internet of Things (IoT). The collected data then is analyzed in order to generate meaningful insights for companies. This paradigm shift has affected the entire market. WQR2016 illustrates how companies are embracing both digital transformation and IoT as tools to analyze and engage with customers in an efficient way, having a strong impact on the processes, procedures, and tools adopted by the IT industry:

In short, data can be amassed from various physical and virtual sources. Processing this data requires a step-by-step process that provides valuable insight at every level. Each stage's data offers new information...