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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 is the difference between testing in DevOps and traditional life cycle?


While traditional testing places a very high emphasis on process standardization and optimization, DevOps QA focuses more on agility and time to market. Skill sets needed for QA professionals are also undergoing a considerable change. Today’s testers adopt continuous testing techniques, leverage automation, and deploy emerging technologies, such as cloud-based environments and service virtualization.

The mindset of a QA in DevOps is very different from that of a QA in an organization 10 years ago. In the past, the primary job of a tester was to find bugs. Today, QA groups are charged with the responsibility of preventing defects from reaching the end user. QA takes on a critical role in DevOps because it has the visibility and the directive to push code out when it is working and roll it back when it is not.

The skill set required for a QA engineer requires a fine mix of technical and business skills. Testers are...