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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

What does advancement of technology mean for the Indian economy?


Advancement of IT has been a boon for the Indian economy. 27% of India’s workforce deployed in the services sector contribute to 57% of the GDP (compare this with 50% workforce in agriculture contributing to 17% of the GDP and 22% workforce in manufacturing contributing to 26% of the GDP).

How would the advancement of technology impact the GDP? There are two ways to look at this. Currently, the IT work in India has a linear correlation to the number of people deployed. If the same work can be done with smarter machines/robots in India, the GDP would go even further up, keeping the percentage of workforce deployed same or lesser.

Let’s discuss any learnings from the global oil price crash and from the slowdown of Chinese manufacturing/the Chinese economy.

Learning from the global oil price crash

I started to analyze what caused the crash of oil prices. Going with the simple demand-supply logic, the reasons could include these:

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