Exploratory software testing : [tips, tricks, tours, and techniques to guide test design]
How to Find and Fix the Killer Software Bugs that Evade Conventional Testing In Exploratory Software Testing , renowned software testing expert James Whittaker reveals the real causes of today’s most serious, well-hidden software bugs--and introduces powerful new “exploratory” techniques for finding...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified]
Addison Wesley
2010
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629027406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1 The Case for Software Quality
- The Magic of Software
- The Failure of Software
- Conclusion
- Exercises
- Chapter 2 The Case for Manual Testing
- The Origin of Software Bugs
- Preventing and Detecting Bugs
- Preventing Bugs
- Detecting Bugs
- Manual Testing
- Scripted Manual Testing
- Exploratory Testing
- Conclusion
- Exercises
- Chapter 3 Exploratory Testing in the Small
- So You Want to Test Software?
- Testing Is About Varying Things
- User Input
- What You Need to Know About User Input
- How to Test User Input
- State
- What You Need to Know About Software State
- How to Test Software State
- Code Paths
- User Data
- Environment
- Conclusion
- Exercises
- Chapter 4 Exploratory Testing in the Large
- Exploring Software
- The Tourist Metaphor
- "Touring" Tests
- Tours of the Business District
- Tours Through the Historical District
- Tours Through the Entertainment District
- Tours Through the Tourist District
- Tours Through the Hotel District
- Tours Through the Seedy District
- Putting the Tours to Use
- Conclusion
- Exercises
- Chapter 5 Hybrid Exploratory Testing Techniques
- Scenarios and Exploration
- Applying Scenario-Based Exploratory Testing
- Introducing Variation Through Scenario Operators
- Inserting Steps
- Removing Steps
- Replacing Steps
- Repeating Steps
- Data Substitution
- Environment Substitution
- Introducing Variation Through Tours
- The Money Tour
- The Landmark Tour
- The Intellectual Tour
- The Back Alley Tour
- The Obsessive-Compulsive Tour
- The All-Nighter Tour
- The Saboteur
- The Collector's Tour
- The Supermodel Tour
- The Supporting Actor Tour
- The Rained-Out Tour
- The Tour-Crasher Tour
- Conclusion
- Exercises
- Chapter 6 Exploratory Testing in Practice
- The Touring Test.
- Touring the Dynamics AX Client
- Useful Tours for Exploration
- The Collector's Tour and Bugs as Souvenirs
- Tour Tips
- Using Tours to Find Bugs
- Testing a Test Case Management Solution
- The Rained-Out Tour
- The Saboteur
- The FedEx Tour
- The TOGOF Tour
- The Practice of Tours in Windows Mobile Devices
- My Approach/Philosophy to Testing
- Interesting Bugs Found Using Tours
- Example of the Saboteur
- Example of the Supermodel Tour
- The Practice of Tours in Windows Media Player
- Windows Media Player
- The Garbage Collector's Tour
- The Supermodel Tour
- The Intellectual Tour
- The Intellectual Tour: Boundary Subtour
- The Parking Lot Tour and the Practice of Tours in Visual Studio Team System Test Edition
- Tours in Sprints
- Parking Lot Tour
- Test Planning and Managing with Tours
- Defining the Landscape
- Planning with Tours
- Letting the Tours Run
- Analysis of Tour Results
- Making the Call: Milestone/Release
- In Practice
- Conclusion
- Exercises
- Chapter 7 Touring and Testing's Primary Pain Points
- The Five Pain Points of Software Testing
- Aimlessness
- Define What Needs to Be Tested
- Determine When to Test
- Determine How to Test
- Repetitiveness
- Know What Testing Has Already Occurred
- Understand When to Inject Variation
- Transiency
- Monotony
- Memorylessness
- Conclusion
- Exercises
- Chapter 8 The Future of Software Testing
- Welcome to the Future
- The Heads-Up Display for Testers
- "Testipedia"
- Test Case Reuse
- Test Atoms and Test Molecules
- Virtualization of Test Assets
- Visualization
- Testing in the Future
- Post-Release Testing
- Conclusion
- Exercises
- Appendix A: Building a Successful Career in Testing
- How Did You Get into Testing?
- Back to the Future
- The Ascent
- The Summit
- The Descent
- Appendix B: A Selection of JW's Professorial "Blog".
- Teach Me Something
- Software's Ten Commandments
- 1. Thou Shalt Pummel Thine App with Multitudes of Input
- 2. Thou Shalt Covet Thy Neighbor's Apps
- 3. Thou Shalt Seek Thee Out the Wise Oracle
- 4. Thou Shalt Not Worship Irreproducible Failures
- 5. Thou Shalt Honor Thy Model and Automation
- 6. Thou Shalt Hold Thy Developers Sins Against Them
- 7. Thou Shalt Revel in App Murder (Celebrate the BSOD)
- 8. Thou Shalt Keep Holy the Sabbath (Release)
- 9. Thou Shalt Covet Thy Developer's Source Code
- Testing Error Code
- Will the Real Professional Testers Please Step Forward
- The Common Denominators I Found Are (In No Particular Order)
- My Advice Can Be Summarized as Follows
- Strike Three, Time for a New Batter
- Formal Methods
- Tools
- Process Improvement
- The Fourth Proposal
- Software Testing as an Art, a Craft and a Discipline
- Restoring Respect to the Software Industry
- The Well-Intentioned but Off-Target Past
- Moving On to Better Ideas
- A Process for Analyzing Security Holes and Quality Problems
- Appendix C: An Annotated Transcript of JW's Microsoft Blog
- Into the Blogoshere
- July 2008
- Before We Begin
- PEST (Pub Exploration and Software Testing)
- Measuring Testers
- Prevention Versus Cure (Part 1)
- Users and Johns
- Ode to the Manual Tester
- Prevention Versus Cure (Part 2)
- Hail Europe!
- The Poetry of Testing
- Prevention Versus Cure (Part 3)
- Back to Testing
- August 2008
- Prevention Versus Cure (Part 4)
- If Microsoft Is So Good at Testing, Why Does Your Software Still Suck?
- Prevention Versus Cure (Part 5)
- Freestyle Exploratory Testing
- Scenario-Based Exploratory Testing
- Strategy-Based Exploratory Testing
- Feedback-Based Exploratory Testing
- The Future of Testing (Part 1)
- The Future of Testing (Part 2)
- September 2008
- On Certification.
- The Future of Testing (Part 3)
- The Future of Testing (Part 4)
- The Future of Testing (Part 5)
- October 2008
- The Future of Testing (Part 6)
- The Future of Testing (Part 7)
- The Future of Testing (Part 8)
- Speaking of Google
- Manual Versus Automated Testing Again
- November 2008
- Software Tester Wanted
- Keeping Testers in Test
- December 2008
- Google Versus Microsoft and the Dev:Test Ratio Debate
- January 2009
- The Zune Issue
- Exploratory Testing Explained
- Test Case Reuse
- More About Test Case Reuse
- I'm Back
- Of Moles and Tainted Peanuts
- Index.
