Testing practitioner handbook : gain insights into the latest technology and business trends within testing domains / Renu Rajani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajani, Renu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software--Testing.

Computer software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, London ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Rajani Renu: Renu Rajani is a seasoned IT services/consulting leader with 27 years of experience. She has worked with reputed tier-1 IT services companies. Renu's experience spans across delivery, transformation, providing technical solutions, outsourcing governance, and consulting. She has served Tier-1 organizations including IBM, Citi, Capgemini, KPMG Consulting in key leadership roles. Renu is an active blogger on digital quality assurance, technology, and managed services and has a follower base of over 15K on social media. She has been a key contributor to Capgemini/Sogeti/HPE World Quality Report during 2015-17. She has led the creation of go-to-market offerings in the area of digital, DevOps, and business assurance. Renu has been recipient of the Testing Thought Leadership award in 2008 by PureTesting and Testing Leader of the year award by Unicom in 2015. This book brings together some of her popular blogs on latest technologies and QA considerations in a book form. Renu authored her first book on software testing in 2003 with McGrawHill. Renu holds an MS from the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University USA, an MBA in Finance from DAVV Indore, and a B Tech in Computer Science from IET, Lucknow University. She is an IBM Sr PM certified with DPE/SM discipline, and holds the ITIL V3, CAIIB, and PMP Certifications.

Summary:

Gain insights into the latest technology and business trends within testing domains About This Book This book covers the latest trends that every Testing and QA professional should keep up-to-date with given the advancements in digital technologies. Master cutting-edge testing techniques for emerging areas such as IOT, Machine Learning, Cognitive. Best practices for Testing and Quality Assurance within several industry domains. Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at those working in the QA and Testing areas. The book does not cover testing basics, which QA professional are already familiar with - for example, writing a test plan or test case, and so on. What You Will Learn Understand the TCOE model, managed services, the structure of testing in Agile/DevOps engagements, factory models, and crowdsourcing Implement testing processes, practices, and automation tools in the Agile/DevOps life cycle Adapt to current technologies in social media, mobile, analytics and the Cloud Leverage cognitive intelligence/machine-learning, robotics, and the Internet of Things in testing How key industries/domains (consumer products and retail, energy and utilities, healthcare, telecom, and automotive) adapt to digital transformation Future directions for the QA industry, consulting careers, testing profession, and professionals In Detail 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. Style and approach This book is a compilation of the latest business and IT trends in digital transformation & T...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: State of Digital Transformation - What Has Changed in the Last Four Years (2013-16)?

Renewed focus on efficiency and effectiveness

QA and testing transformation focus

QA and testing transformation drivers

State of digital maturity

Spends for digital QA

Predictions on the level of cloud-based applications

Increased challenges in mobile and IoT multichannel testing

Reduction in customer experience testing challenges

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Future of Testing Engagement Models - Are Predictions of Increased QA Spends Justified?

How is QA effort spread

Split of QA effort between development and production support

Increased QA efforts for new development - point of view

Increase of QA effort in the design phase

Increased QA effort in the design phase - point of view

QA organizations would follow hybrid QA teams (centralized and decentralized)

Trend towards Hybrid QA teams - point of view

What will be the future of testing engagement models?

Future of testing engagement models - point of view

References

Chapter 3: The Benefits of Replacing Testing Subcontractors with Managed Testing Services

Findings from the World Quality Report 2016 on industrialization and testing centers of excellence

Use of direct subcontractors remains prevalent

Key challenges associated while working with subcontractors

How replacing testing subcontractors with managed testing services helps

Knowledge retention

Handover

Cost of resourcing

Economies of scale

Illustration of benefits

A saving calculator

Chapter 4: Digital Quality Assurance in a Factory Model

Services factories.

A digital factory model for industrializing digital QA delivery

Key Elements for Onboarding in DQAF

DQAF enablement functions

DQAF service delivery functions

Benefits delivered through DQAF model

Chapter 5: Crowdsourcing - Enabling Flexible, On-Demand Testing COEs

Trends - crowdsourced testing

What is crowdtesting and how does it work?

Crowdtesting operating models

Crowdtesting as part of Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE)

Key challenges of adopting crowdtesting

The benefits of crowdtesting

Chapter 6: Testing Goes an Extra Mile over Weekends

Weekend testing - modus operandi

Advantages

Disadvantages

Trends in the use of crowdsourced testing

How can large IT organizations ride the weekend testing bandwagon?

Chapter 7: Testing in Agile Development and the State of Agile Adoption

What do agile projects promise compared to traditional waterfall?

Flavors of agile

Scrum

Kanban

How is testing done in agile sprints?

Agile in distributed environments

State of agile adoption - findings from the World Quality Report 2016-2017

Challenges in applying agile methodology

Approaches to testing in agile development environments

Skills needed from QA and testing professions for agile

Chapter 8: Agile and DevOps Adoption are Gaining Momentum

Increased use of agile/DevOps principles

Increased complexity of testing in the agile landscape

Challenges cited in setting up agile test COEs

How is QA transforming to meet the demands of agile/DevOps life cycles

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

Chapter 9: Does the Rise of DevOps Undermine Agile?

Agile is about speed

DevOps removes the boundaries between dev, QA, and operations.

Agile versus DevOps

Chapter 10: Role of Automation in DevOps Life Cycle

The importance of automation in DevOps

Early integration automation

Automation - the default practice

Deployment automation

Automation - metrics and measurements

Automation coverage

Automation index

Framework and scripts reusability

Automation scripting and execution productivity

Automation ROI

Automation progress tracking

Best practices to adopt early and continuously automate

Treating automation as any other development work

Quality engineering

Coupling of development, automation, and test teams

Selecting the right solution

Chapter 11: Assessing the State of Your DevOps Adoption with DevOps Bench

Why DevOps - the drivers

Challenges organizations face in implementing DevOps

DevOps QA benchmarking - why and what?

DevOps QA benchmarking assessment areas

Outcome of DevOps QA benchmarking assessment

Chapter 12: Accelerating DevOps - ChatOps is the New Cool

DevOps trends from World Quality Report

ChatOps - How does it work?

Application of ChatOps as a collaboration platform

Benefits of ChatOps

Chapter 13: Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Using Gherkin in Agile/DevOps Environment

Background - Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

Gherkin - basic syntax and illustration

Roles of members involved

Benefits of using Gherkin

Chapter 14: Automating Configuration Management for DevOps Test Environments

Background

Types of test environments

Configuration and environment management services on cloud and related challenges

Potential solutions for automated configuration management

The benefits of automating configuration management

Conclusion.

Chapter 15: Automated Test Data Management in the DevOps Environment

TDM in DevOps environment - key challenges

Automated TDM solution for DevOps environment

Typical TDM services and TDM architecture

Benefits of automated TDM

Best practices in TDM

Chapter 16: Testing in DevOps Life Cycle Using Microservices Architecture

What is microservices architecture?

Testing in agile/DevOps life cycle using Microservices Architecture

Performance testing of Microservices

Monitoring Microservices

Chapter 17: Automated Test Environments for DevOps

Test Environment Management - key challenges

Test environment automation approach for DevOps

Benefits of test environment automation

Test environment metrics to consider in release management

Test environment automation tools

Chapter 18: Service Virtualization as an Enabler of DevOps

Service virtualization and DevOps

Role of service virtualization in DevOps

Service virtualization - research input

Service virtualization automation tools used in DevOps

Chapter 19: Best Practices in Identifying Regression Test Cases

Background - software regression testing

Software regression process

How should one choose test cases for regression?

Chapter 20: Accessibility Test Automation in DevOps Environment

Background - Accessibility (AX)

AX and DevOps

AX test automation in DevOps

Standard AX tools

Chapter 21: Performance Tuning of Java Applications

Performance bottlenecks - key challenges and solutions

Reusing objects

Managing pool of objects

Canonicalizing objects

Enumerating constants

Comparison versus identity

Avoiding excess garbage collection

Delayed initialization

Java performance tuning tools.

NetBean profiler for analyzing Java applications

Thread state

CPU Performance

Memory Usage

Chapter 22: Testing Mobile Applications - Key Challenges and Considerations

User expectations

Key challenges encountered in testing mobile applications

User experience

Contextual appropriateness

Varied mobile user interfaces

Device diversity and availability

Device based testing approach

Automated testing of layouts

Test automation challenges with non-standardized tools

Reduced time to market

Recommendations to enhance mobile applications usability

Chapter 23: Testing Analytics Applications - What Has Changed in SMAC World

Understanding your customers, gathering data and analyzing it

Testing the data

Testing the BI/BA applications

How is testing done differently for big data/Hadoop applications?

Chapter 24: Migrating Applications to Cloud Environments - Key Testing Considerations

Need for validating applications for cloud migration

Key testing focus areas in cloud migration of applications

Key challenges in validation during cloud migration of applications

Application migration validation - a holistic approach

Chapter 25: How Should a Tester Adapt to Cloud - Call for Change of Mindset among Testers

What must testers prepare for when testing applications on cloud

Testing the invisible

Understanding the distance

Breaking the communication barriers

Securing the application

Replicating the platform

Using the right tools

Chapter 26: On-Demand Performance Testing on Self-Service Environments

On-demand performance testing environments - key challenges and solutions

Need for a cloud platform to build end-to-end performance testing.

On-demand self-service environments for carrying out performance testing.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2017).

ISBN:

9781788290593

1788290593

OCLC:

982197622