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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 5. Crowdsourcing – Enabling Flexible, On-Demand Testing COEs

Crowdsourcing is leveraged in many areas. Some of the early examples of crowdsourcing include web-based dictionaries and Wikipedia. A large number of people around the world who have common interests contribute to creating something useful for the world.

Demand for crowdsourced testing is fueled by the growth in digital transformation engagements that require applications to be available across multiple channels. In this chapter, we will discuss the application of crowdsourcing in testing. We will cover the following topics:

  • Trends in crowdsourced testing

  • Key elements and how do they work

  • Operating models

  • Challenges in adoption

  • Key benefits