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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

How can large IT organizations ride the weekend testing bandwagon?


Although there are few demerits of weekend testing, the power of weekend testers can still be leveraged tremendously. Some IT service providers have formed an alliance with crowd platform providers, such as Applause, as part of its Liquid Workforce Strategy. It features more than 250,000 experienced QA testers from around the world. Applause complements in-house testing professionals to provide a range of testing services and geographic coverage to their customers, especially in the areas of mobile devices, desktops, kiosks, smart TVs, wearables, and IoT testing.

A formal governance model can help integrate weekend testing teams with the test engagement teams of IT service providers. Weekend testing teams could report to meeting facilitators who typically consist of test leads or managers of test engagement. Such governance could include monitoring and reviewing of daily project activities, including weekly work schedule,...