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Effective Software Testing: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Testing (Out of print)
AUTHOR | Dustin, Elfriede |
PUBLISHER | Addison-Wesley Professional (12/28/2002) |
PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Effective Software Testing explores fifty critically important best practices, pitfalls, and solutions. Gleaned from the author's extensive practical experience, these concrete items will enable quality assurance professionals and test managers to immediately enhance their understanding and skills, avoid costly mistakes, and implement a state-of-the-art testing program.
This book places special emphasis on the integration of testing into all phases of the software development life cycle--from requirements definition to design and final coding. The fifty lessons provided here focus on the key aspects of software testing: test planning, design, documentation, execution, managing the testing team, unit testing, automated testing, nonfunctional testing, and more.
You will learn to:
- Base testing efforts on a prioritized feature schedule
- Estimate test preparation and execution
- Define the testing team roles and responsibilities
- Design test procedures as soon as requirements are available
- Derive effective test cases from requirements
- Avoid constraints and detailed data elements in test procedures
- Make unit-test execution part of the build process
- Use logging to increase system testability
- Test automated test tools on an application prototype
- Automate regression tests whenever possible
- Avoid sole reliance on capture/playback
- Conduct performance testing with production-sized databases
- Tailor usability tests to the intended audience
- Isolate the test environment from the development environment
- Implement a defect tracking life cycle
Throughout the book, numerous real-world case studies and concrete examples illustrate the successful application of these important principles and techniques.
Effective Software Testing provides ready access to the expertise and advice of one of the world's foremost software quality and testing authorities.
0201794292B12032002With subject matter expertise validating and managing testing of ERP systems, Jose has participated in verification of customized implementations of SAP R/3, SAP R/3 Bolt-ons, custom applications and non-SAP applications interfacing with SAP R/3. He has been instrumental in guiding and mentoring Fortune 100 companies in the development of testing strategies and methodologies, creating testing standards, documenting Test Readiness Review checklists, documenting entrance/exit/release criteria, implementing testing best practices, creating Quality Assurance (QA) teams and QA processes, mentoring junior programmers, staffing testing efforts with resources, performing V&V activities, managing outsourcing agreements, preparing for audits of testing results, managing the execution of test scripts, and implementing automated testing strategies.
Elfriede Dustin is a Senior Consultant with Innovative Defense Technologies, and coauthor of "The Art of Software Security Testing," author of "Effective Software Testing," lead author of "Automated Software Testing and Quality Web Systems," books which have been translated into various languages and are available worldwide. She has been responsible for implementing automated tests, or has performed as the lead consultant/manager/director guiding implementation of automated and manualsoftware testing efforts. She resides in the Washington, D.C. area and has consulted for various government agencies.