Pragmatic software testing : becoming an effective and efficient test professional / Rex Black.

By:

Black, Rex, 1964-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Indianapolis, IN : Wiley, c2007.Description: xviii, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0470127902
9780470127902

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

005.14 22

Contents:

Chapter 1 : What Does It Mean to Be Pragmatic? -- Chapter 2 : Triangle Test Exercise -- Chapter 3 : Aligning Testing with the Project -- Chapter 4 : Understanding Test Strategies, Tactics, and Design -- Chapter 5 : Understanding Risks to System Quality -- Chapter 6 : Aligning Testing with Quality Risks -- Chapter 7 : Quality Risk Analysis Exercise -- Chapter 8 : Reviews and Other Static Tests -- Chapter 9 : Review Exercise -- Chapter 10 : Equivalence Classes and Boundary Values -- Chapter 11 : Equivalence Classes and Boundary Values Exercise -- Chapter 12 : Use Cases, Live Data, and Decision Tables -- Chapter 13 : Decision Table Exercise -- Chapter 14 : State Transition Diagrams -- Chapter 15 : State Transition Diagram Exercise -- Chapter 16 : Domain Testing -- Chapter 17 : Domain Testing Exercise -- Chapter 18 : Orthogonal Arrays and All Pairs -- Chapter 19 : Orthogonal Arrays Exercise -- Chapter 20 : Reactive Testing -- Chapter 21 : Control-Flow Testing -- Chapter 22 : Control-Flow Testing Exercise -- Chapter 23 : Data-Flow Testing -- Chapter 24 : Data-Flow Testing Exercise -- Chapter 25 : Integration Testing -- Chapter 26 : Integration Basis Test Exercise.

Summary: Testing even a simple system can quickly turn into a potentially infinite task. Faced with tight costs and schedules, testers need to have a toolkit of practical techniques combined with hands-on experience and the right strategies in order to complete a successful project. World-renowned testing expert Rex Black provides you with the proven methods and concepts that test professionals must know. He presents you with the fundamental techniques for testing and clearly shows you how to select and apply successful strategies to test a system with budget and time constraints. Black begins by discussing the goals and tactics of effective and efficient testing. Next, he lays the foundation of his technique for risk-based testing, explaining how to analyze, prioritize, and document risks to the quality of the system using both informal and formal techniques. He then clearly describes how to design, develop, and, ultimately, document various kinds of tests. Because this is a hands-on activity, Black includes realistic, life-sized exercises that illustrate all of the major test techniques with detailed solutions. By the end of this book, you'll know more about the nuts and bolts of testing than most testers learn in an entire career, and you'll be ready to put those ideas into action on your next test project. With the help of real-world examples integrated throughout the chapters, you'll discover how to: Analyze the risks to system quality Allocate your testing effort appropriately based on the level of risk Choose the right testing strategies every time Design tests based on a system's expected behavior (black box) or internal structure (white box) Plan and perform integration testing Explore and attack the system Focus your hard work to serve the needs of the project The author's companion Web site provides exercises, tips, and techniques that can be used to gain valuable experience and effectively test software and systems.Summary: Pragmatic Software Testing covers the strategies, techniques, and concepts that effective and efficient test professionals need to do their job. This book is about practical concepts. This book is hands-on with many realistic exercises. Appropriately enough, this book is tested. Rex Black has used these concepts in his career as a test professional, which began in 1987, four years after starting his software career in a Fortran and C programming job. Since 1997, thousands of software and systems professionals around the world have taken the training courses that provide the base material for this book. The first section discusses the goals, strategies, and tactics of effective and efficient testing. Even experienced testers will find something new here, and people who are new to testing should work through these chapters completely. The next section lays the foundation of Rex Black's technique for risk-based testing. You’ ll learn how to analyze, prioritize, and document risks to the quality of the system, using both informal and formal techniques. Unless you are already an experienced risk-analysis professional, you should work carefully through this section. In the heart of the book, with the goals of testing defined through quality risk analysis, you’ ll start to fill your testing toolkit. In a sequence of sections, you’ ll learn to design, develop, and, ultimately, document various kinds of tests. You’ ll learn static, black box, and white box test techniques, including: Requirements, design, and code reviews. Equivalence classes and boundary value analysis. Decision tables. Live dataand customer workflow testing. State-transition diagrams. Domain testing. Orthogonal arrays. Statement, branch, condition, and loop code coverage. McCabe complexity and unit basis tests. Data flow coverage. Integration test techniques. McCabe integration basis tests.

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Testing even a simple system can quickly turn into a potentially infinite task. Faced with tight costs and schedules, testers need to have a toolkit of practical techniques combined with hands-on experience and the right strategies in order to complete a successful project. World-renowned testing expert Rex Black provides you with the proven methods and concepts that test professionals must know. He presents you with the fundamental techniques for testing and clearly shows you how to select and apply successful strategies to test a system with budget and time constraints. Black begins by discussing the goals and tactics of effective and efficient testing. Next, he lays the foundation of his technique for risk-based testing, explaining how to analyze, prioritize, and document risks to the quality of the system using both informal and formal techniques. He then clearly describes how to design, develop, and, ultimately, document various kinds of tests. Because this is a hands-on activity, Black includes realistic, life-sized exercises that illustrate all of the major test techniques with detailed solutions. By the end of this book, you'll know more about the nuts and bolts of testing than most testers learn in an entire career, and you'll be ready to put those ideas into action on your next test project. With the help of real-world examples integrated throughout the chapters, you'll discover how to: Analyze the risks to system quality Allocate your testing effort appropriately based on the level of risk Choose the right testing strategies every time Design tests based on a system's expected behavior (black box) or internal structure (white box) Plan and perform integration testing Explore and attack the system Focus your hard work to serve the needs of the project The author's companion Web site provides exercises, tips, and techniques that can be used to gain valuable experience and effectively test software and systems.

Pragmatic Software Testing covers the strategies, techniques, and concepts that effective and efficient test professionals need to do their job. This book is about practical concepts. This book is hands-on with many realistic exercises. Appropriately enough, this book is tested. Rex Black has used these concepts in his career as a test professional, which began in 1987, four years after starting his software career in a Fortran and C programming job. Since 1997, thousands of software and systems professionals around the world have taken the training courses that provide the base material for this book. The first section discusses the goals, strategies, and tactics of effective and efficient testing. Even experienced testers will find something new here, and people who are new to testing should work through these chapters completely. The next section lays the foundation of Rex Black's technique for risk-based testing. You’ ll learn how to analyze, prioritize, and document risks to the quality of the system, using both informal and formal techniques. Unless you are already an experienced risk-analysis professional, you should work carefully through this section. In the heart of the book, with the goals of testing defined through quality risk analysis, you’ ll start to fill your testing toolkit. In a sequence of sections, you’ ll learn to design, develop, and, ultimately, document various kinds of tests. You’ ll learn static, black box, and white box test techniques, including: Requirements, design, and code reviews. Equivalence classes and boundary value analysis. Decision tables. Live dataand customer workflow testing. State-transition diagrams. Domain testing. Orthogonal arrays. Statement, branch, condition, and loop code coverage. McCabe complexity and unit basis tests. Data flow coverage. Integration test techniques. McCabe integration basis tests.

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