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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

Physical versus online stores – key trends


You can have a look at the brief overview of the trends in the market, which can broadly be classified and simply known as physical and online:

Brick-and-mortar – physical stores

Physical stores still enjoy a major market share as customers would like to feel the product before they buy (for example, jewelry, spectacles, clothes, sports equipment, and so on.). Most of the big retail stores have brought all the products under one roof, which makes them a one-stop shop for all the customer's needs. Currently, physical stores have staff to assist the customers in their purchase. Retail stores have a Point of Sales (PoS) system, which is integrated with all the other systems.

The physical stores have been continuously upgrading themselves to the new technologies. The latest being

The trolleys are being fitted with a bar code scanner and all the items kept in the trolley are scanned for billing. This helps the customer to know the total cost of each time...