Testing Practitioner Handbook: Gain insights into the latest technology and business trends within testing domains.

Renu Rajani

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

The year 2015 was the first time significant trends in digital transformation were spotted in the World Quality Report (WQR). The upward trend continued in 2016 with the growing adoption of digital. In this chapter, we have will discuss the specific changes we witnessed in the last 4 years in QA transformation. Some of the trends I have observed are discussed further on.

QA and testing transformation focus

The focus of the QA transformation agenda has undergone a shift over the last few years from focus on centralizing QA to addressing vulnerabilities in digital business, to increased QA spends, to increased customer, and user experience combined with security and a renewed focus on efficiency. Refer to the following table:

2013	2014	2015	2016
Centralizing and streamlining testing functions indicating continuing maturing of the QA function.	Digital business transformation programs using SMAC technologies and Internet of Things (IoT) changed the focus and importance of QA and testing. Focus on addressing vulnerabilities—network performance, security, and cloud service availability.	Organizations that are more mature and advanced in digital transformation spend the most in QA and testing and have established a direct connection between quality and achieving business outcomes. Focus of testing on usability, customer experience, and performance.	The strategic IT drivers include security, customer experience, and corporate image. In addition, there is a renewed focus on efficiency and effectiveness.

QA and testing transformation drivers

The key driver for QA and testing transformation has changed from cost optimization in 2013 to the need for instant access to information in 2014, to focusing on customer value and end user experience in 2015. Customer experience has stayed the focus in 2016 as well:

2013	2014	2015	2016
Cost optimization	People's need for instant connectivity and access to information	Focus on customer value and the impact of IT quality on end user experience	Protect corporate image and enhance customer experience

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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.

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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.

Who is this book 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

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Provides great technical advice through different pattern & case studies. The ideas in this book and its analytical approach have inspired me, and I would recommend the book to anyone involved in software testing & devops.

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This is one of the must read books. Very nicely articulated. Covers the latest trends & best practices.

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A must have for trends and concepts for the Qa professionalExcellent read

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Very helpful especially for beginners. Very handy and I would definitely recommend to my fellow testers! Great job

koushik dutta Mar 29, 2018

The way of testing has changed a lot since last 5-10 years. This is called a quick evolution and still changing. This book talks about that in all the aspects and it's know how.Before this book came out, I was missing all the dots in a single cover...the dots starting from pre-sales to solution design to test delivery and maintenance, improving test efficiency and productivity applying continuous improvement.This book has added tremendous insight for me, especially in the areas of digital transformation and IOTs, various testing modelling across all the life cycles and its implementations. Some of the decision-making questions are also answered in this book very well...e.g. how to use the TCoE in the current trend of testing? Is it useful? etc.I highly recommend this book to all the IT practitioners, who are doing their development and testing.

Testing Practitioner Handbook: Gain insights into the latest technology and business trends within testing domains.

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Testing Practitioner Handbook

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

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