Beautiful testing / edited by Tim Riley and Adam Goucher.

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TextPublication details: Beijing : O'Reilly, c2010.Description: xviii, 329 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780596159818

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DDC classification:

005.14 22

Contents:

Chapter 1 : Was It Good for You? -- Chapter 2 : Beautiful Testing Satisfies Stakeholders -- Chapter 3 : Building Open Source QA Communities -- Chapter 4 : Collaboration Is the Cornerstone of Beautiful Performance Testing -- Chapter 5 : Just Peachy: Making Office Software More Reliable with Fuzz Testing -- Chapter 6 : Bug Management and Test Case Effectiveness -- Chapter 7 : Beautiful XMPP Testing -- Chapter 8 : Beautiful Large-Scale Test Automation -- Chapter 9 : Beautiful Is Better Than Ugly -- Chapter 10 : Testing a Random Number Generator -- Chapter 11 : Change-Centric Testing -- Chapter 12 : Software in Use -- Chapter 13 : Software Development Is a Creative Process -- Chapter 14 : Test-Driven Development: Driving New Standards of Beauty -- Chapter 15 : Beautiful Testing As the Cornerstone of Business Success -- Chapter 16 : Peeling the Glass Onion at Socialtext -- Chapter 17 : Beautiful Testing Is Efficient Testing -- Chapter 18 : Seeding Bugs to Find Bugs: Beautiful Mutation Testing -- Chapter 19 : Reference Testing As Beautiful Testing -- Chapter 20 : Clam Anti-Virus: Testing Open Source with Open Tools -- Chapter 21 : Web Application Testing with Windmill -- Chapter 22 : Testing One Million Web Pages -- Chapter 23 : Testing Network Services in Multimachine Scenarios.

Summary: 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 Schroder Clint Talbert Scott Barber Kamran Khan Emily Chen Brian Nitz Remko Troncon 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

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Includes index.

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 Schroder Clint Talbert Scott Barber Kamran Khan Emily Chen Brian Nitz Remko Troncon 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

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