Tim Riley, Adam Goucher

Beautiful Testing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it's a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good ideas.

Beautiful Testing offers 23 essays from 27 leading testers and developers that illustrate the qualities and techniques that make testing an art. Through personal anecdotes, you'll learn how each of these professionals developed beautiful ways of testing a wide range of products valuable knowledge that you can apply to your own projects.

Here's a sample of what you'll find inside:

- Microsoft's Alan Page knows a lot about large-scale test automation, and shares some of his secrets on how to make it beautiful

- Scott Barber explains why performance testing needs to be a collaborative process, rather than simply an exercise in measuring speed

- Karen Johnson describes how her professional experience intersected her personal life while testing medical software

- Rex Black reveals how satisfying stakeholders for 25 years is a beautiful thing

- Mathematician John D. Cook applies a classic definition of beauty, based on complexity and unity, to testing random number generators

All author royalties will be donated to the Nothing But Nets campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a disease that kills millions of children in Africa each year.

This book includes contributions from:

- Adam Goucher
- Linda Wilkinson
- Rex Black
- Martin Schröder
- Clint Talbert
- Scott Barber
- Kamran Khan
- Emily Chen
- Brian Nitz
- Remko Tronçon
- Alan Page
- Neal Norwitz
- Michelle Levesque
- Jeffrey Yasskin
- John D. Cook
- Murali Nandigama
- Karen N. Johnson
- Chris McMahon
- Jennitta Andrea
- Lisa Crispin
- Matt Heusser
- Andreas Zeller
- David Schuler
- Tomasz Kojm
- Adam Christian
- Tim Riley
- Isaac Clerencia

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 347
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780596159818
• ISBN-10: 0596159811
• Artikelnr.: 26488284

Autorenporträt

Tim Riley is the Director of Quality Assurance at Mozilla. He has tested software for 18 years including everything from spacecraft simulators, ground control systems, high security operating systems, language platforms, application servers, hosted services and open source web applications. He has managed software testing teams in startups to large corporations consisting of 3 to 120 people in size and in up to 6 countries. He has a software patent for a testing execution framework which matches test suites to available test systems. He enjoys being a breeder caretaker for Canine Companions for Independence (cci.org) along with live and studio sound engineering. Adam Goucher has been testing software professionally for over ten years. In that time he has worked with start-ups, large multi-nationals and ones in between in both traditional and agile testing environments. A believer in the communication of ideas big and small, he writes frequently at http: //adam.goucher.ca and teaches testing skills at a Toronto area technical college. In his off hours he can be found either playing or coaching box lacrosse - and then promptly applying lessons learned to testing. He is also an active member of the Association for Software Testing.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents: Beautiful Testers Chapter 1 Was It Good for You? Chapter 2 Beautiful Testing Satisfies Stakeholders For Whom Do We Test? What Satisfies? What Beauty Is External? What Beauty Is Internal? Conclusions Chapter 3 Building Open Source QA Communities Communication Volunteers Coordination Events Conclusions Chapter 4 Collaboration Is the Cornerstone of Beautiful Performance Testing Setting the Stage 100%?!? Fail The Memory Leak That Wasn t Can t Handle the Load? Change the UI It Can t Be the Network Wrap-Up Beautiful Process Chapter 5 Just Peachy: Making Office Software More Reliable with Fuzz Testing User Expectations What Is Fuzzing? Why Fuzz Test? Fuzz Testing Future Considerations Chapter 6 Bug Management and Test Case Effectiveness Bug Management The First Step in Managing a Defect Is Defining It Test Case Effectiveness Case Study of the OpenSolaris Desktop Team Conclusions Acknowledgments References Chapter 7 Beautiful XMPP Testing Introduction XMPP 101 Testing XMPP Protocols Unit Testing Simple Request-Response Protocols Unit Testing Multistage Protocols Testing Session Initialization Automated Interoperability Testing Diamond in the Rough: Testing XML Validity Conclusions References Chapter 8 Beautiful Large-Scale Test Automation Before We Start What Is Large-Scale Test Automation? The First Steps Automated Tests and Test Case Management The Automated Test Lab Test Distribution Failure Analysis Reporting Putting It All Together Chapter 9 Beautiful Is Better Than Ugly The Value of Stability Ensuring Correctness Conclusions Chapter 10 Testing a Random Number Generator What Makes Random Number Generators Subtle to Test? Uniform Random Number Generators Nonuniform Random Number Generators A Progression of Tests Conclusions Chapter 11 Change-Centric Testing How to Set Up the Document-Driven, Change-Centric Testing Framework? Change-Centric Testing for Complex Code Development Models What Have We Learned So Far? Conclusions Chapter 12 Software in Use A Connection to My Work From the Inside Adding Different Perspectives Exploratory, Ad-Hoc, and Scripted Testing Multiuser Testing The Science Lab Simulating Real Use Testing in the Regulated World At the End Chapter 13 Software Development Is a Creative Process Agile Development As Performance Practice, Rehearse, Perform Evaluating the Ineffable Two Critical Tools Software Testing Movements The Beauty of Agile Testing QA Is Not Evil Beauty Is the Nature of This Work References Chapter 14 Test-Driven Development: Driving New Standards of Beauty

Rezensionen

" A book any IT guy should own. It provides many different views on the wide range testing topic. Starting with a more general and theoretical consideration about how and who is affected by testing, the book dives into specific (testing) problem domains. The different projects with their problems are investigated, the requirements on testing are explained and solutions are shown. Also different testing methods and concepts are explained like Test Driven Development (TDD). The book close with the third part which shows different testing tools and their usage in different scenarios." -- IT-Stammtisch Darmstadt, März 2010