Advanced Software Testing. Volume 3, : Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification As an Advanced Technical Test Analyst

Advanced Software Testing Volume 3, : Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification As an Advanced Technical Test Analyst Volume 3, :

This book is written for the technical test analyst who wants to achieve advanced skills in test analysis, design, and execution. With a hands-on, exercise-rich approach, this book teaches you how to define and carry out the tasks required to implement a test strategy. You will be able to analyze,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mitchell, Jamie L., author (author), Black, Rex, 1964- author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, CA : Rocky Nook [2015]
Edición:Second edition
Materias:
Computer software > Examinations > Study guides.
Computer software > Testing.
Electronic data processing personnel > Certification.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629600706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Advanced Software Testing Vol. 3
  • Table of Contents
  • Jamie Mitchell's Acknowledgements
  • Rex Black's Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Technical Test Analyst's Tasks in Risk-Based Testing
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Risk Identification
  • 1.3 Risk Assessment
  • 1.4 Risk Mitigation or Risk Control
  • 1.5 An Example of Risk Identification and Assessment Results
  • 1.6 Risk-Aware Testing Standard
  • 1.7 Sample Exam Questions
  • 2 Structure-Based Testing
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.1.1 Control Flow Testing Theory
  • 2.1.2 Building Control Flow Graphs
  • 2.1.3 Statement Coverage
  • 2.1.4 Decision Coverage
  • 2.1.5 Loop Coverage
  • 2.1.6 Hexadecimal Converter Exercise
  • 2.1.7 Hexadecimal Converter Exercise Debrief
  • 2.2 Condition Coverage
  • 2.3 Decision Condition Coverage
  • 2.4 Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC)
  • 2.4.1 Complicating Issues: Short-Circuiting
  • 2.4.2 Complicating Issues: Coupling
  • 2.5 Multiple Condition Coverage
  • 2.5.1 Control Flow Exercise
  • 2.5.2 Control Flow Exercise Debrief
  • 2.6 Path Testing
  • 2.6.1 Path Testing via Flow Graphs
  • 2.6.2 Basis Path Testing
  • 2.6.3 Cyclomatic Complexity Exercise
  • 2.6.4 Cyclomatic Complexity Exercise Debrief
  • 2.7 API Testing
  • 2.8 Selecting a Structure-Based Technique
  • 2.8.1 Structure-Based Testing Exercise Debrief
  • 2.9 A Final Word on Structural Testing
  • 2.10 Sample Exam Questions
  • 3 Analytical Techniques
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Static Analysis
  • 3.2.1 Control Flow Analysis
  • 3.2.2 Data Flow Analysis
  • 3.2.2.1 Define-Use Pairs
  • 3.2.2.2 Define-Use Pair Example
  • 3.2.2.3 Data Flow Exercise
  • 3.2.2.4 Data Flow Exercise Debrief
  • 3.2.2.5 A Data Flow Strategy
  • 3.2.3 Static Analysis to Improve Maintainability
  • 3.2.3.1 Code Parsing Tools
  • 3.2.3.2 Standards and Guidelines
  • 3.2.4 Call Graphs
  • 3.2.4.1 Call-Graph-Based Integration Testing.
  • 3.2.4.2 McCabe's Design Predicate Approach to Integration
  • 3.2.4.3 Hex Converter Example
  • 3.2.4.4 McCabe Design Predicate Exercise
  • 3.2.4.5 McCabe Design Predicate Exercise Debrief
  • 3.3 Dynamic Analysis
  • 3.3.1 Memory Leak Detection
  • 3.3.2 Wild Pointer Detection
  • 3.3.3 Dynamic Analysis Exercise
  • 3.3.4 Dynamic Analysis Exercise Debrief
  • 3.4 Sample Exam Questions
  • 4 Quality Characteristics for Technical Testing
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Security Testing
  • 4.2.1 Security Issues
  • 4.2.1.1 Piracy
  • 4.2.1.2 Buffer Overflow
  • 4.2.1.3 Denial of Service
  • 4.2.1.4 Data Transfer Interception
  • 4.2.1.5 Breaking Encryption
  • 4.2.1.6 Logic Bombs/Viruses/Worms
  • 4.2.1.7 Cross-Site Scripting
  • 4.2.1.8 Timely Information
  • 4.2.1.9 Internal Security Metrics
  • 4.2.1.10 External Security Metrics
  • 4.2.1.11 Exercise: Security
  • 4.2.1.12 Exercise: Security Debrief
  • 4.3 Reliability Testing
  • 4.3.1 Maturity
  • 4.3.1.1 Internal Maturity Metrics
  • 4.3.1.2 External Maturity Metrics
  • 4.3.2 Fault Tolerance
  • 4.3.2.1 Internal Fault Tolerance Metrics
  • 4.3.2.2 External Fault Tolerance Metrics
  • 4.3.3 Recoverability
  • 4.3.3.1 Internal Recoverability Metrics
  • 4.3.3.2 External Recoverability Metrics
  • 4.3.4 Compliance
  • 4.3.4.1 Internal Compliance Metrics
  • 4.3.4.2 External Compliance Metrics
  • 4.3.5 An Example of Good Reliability Testing
  • 4.3.6 Exercise: Reliability Testing
  • 4.3.7 Exercise: Reliability Testing Debrief
  • 4.4 Efficiency Testing
  • 4.4.1 Multiple Flavors of Efficiency Testing
  • 4.4.2 Modeling the System
  • 4.4.2.1 Identify the Test Environment
  • 4.4.2.2 Identify the Performance Acceptance Criteria
  • 4.4.2.3 Plan and Design Tests
  • 4.4.2.4 Configure the Test Environment
  • 4.4.2.5 Implement the Test Design
  • 4.4.2.6 Execute the Test
  • 4.4.2.7 Analyze the Results, Tune and Retest
  • 4.4.3 Time Behavior.
  • 4.4.3.1 Internal Time Behavior Metrics
  • 4.4.3.2 External Time Behavior Metrics
  • 4.4.4 Resource Utilization
  • 4.4.4.1 Internal Resource Utilization Metrics
  • 4.4.4.2 External Resource Utilization Metrics
  • 4.4.5 Compliance
  • 4.4.5.1 Internal Compliance Metric
  • 4.4.5.2 External Compliance Metric
  • 4.4.6 Exercise: Efficiency Testing
  • 4.4.7 Exercise: Efficiency Testing Debrief
  • 4.5 Maintainability Testing
  • 4.5.1 Analyzability
  • 4.5.1.1 Internal Analyzability Metrics
  • 4.5.1.2 External Analyzability Metrics
  • 4.5.2 Changeability
  • 4.5.2.1 Internal Changeability Metrics
  • 4.5.2.2 External Changeability Metrics
  • 4.5.3 Stability
  • 4.5.3.1 Internal Stability Metrics
  • 4.5.3.2 External Stability Metrics
  • 4.5.4 Testability
  • 4.5.4.1 Internal Testability Metrics
  • 4.5.4.2 External Testability Metrics
  • 4.5.5 Compliance
  • 4.5.5.1 Internal Compliance Metric
  • 4.5.5.2 External Compliance Metric
  • 4.5.6 Exercise: Maintainability Testing
  • 4.5.7 Exercise: Maintainability Testing Debrief
  • 4.6 Portability Testing
  • 4.6.1 Adaptability
  • 4.6.1.1 Internal Adaptability Metrics
  • 4.6.1.2 External Adaptability Metrics
  • 4.6.2 Replaceability
  • 4.6.2.1 Internal Replaceability Metrics
  • 4.6.2.2 External Replaceability Metrics
  • 4.6.3 Installability
  • 4.6.3.1 Internal Installability Metrics
  • 4.6.3.2 External Installability Metrics
  • 4.6.4 Coexistence
  • 4.6.4.1 Internal Coexistence Metrics
  • 4.6.4.2 External Coexistence Metrics
  • 4.6.5 Compliance
  • 4.6.5.1 Internal Compliance Metrics
  • 4.6.5.2 External Compliance Metrics
  • 4.6.6 Exercise: Portability Testing
  • 4.6.7 Exercise: Portability Testing Debrief
  • 4.7 General Planning Issues
  • 4.8 Sample Exam Questions
  • 5 Reviews
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Using Checklists in Reviews
  • 5.2.1 Some General Checklist Items for Design and Architecture Reviews.
  • 5.2.2 Deutsch's Design Review Checklist
  • 5.2.3 Some General Checklist Items for Code Reviews
  • 5.2.4 Marick's Code Review Checklist
  • 5.2.5 The Open Laszlo Code Review Checklist
  • 5.3 Deutsch Checklist Review Exercise
  • 5.4 Deutsch Checklist Review Exercise Debrief
  • 5.5 Code Review Exercise
  • 5.6 Code Review Exercise Debrief
  • 5.7 Sample Exam Questions
  • 6 Test Tools and Automation
  • 6.1 Integration and Information Interchange between Tools
  • 6.2 Defining the Test Automation Project
  • 6.2.1 Preparing for a Test Automation Project
  • 6.2.2 Why Automation Projects Fail
  • 6.2.3 Automation Architectures (Data Driven vs. Keyword Driven)
  • 6.2.3.1 The Capture/Replay Architecture
  • 6.2.3.2 Evolving from Capture/Replay
  • 6.2.3.3 The Simple Framework Architecture
  • 6.2.3.4 The Data-Driven Architecture
  • 6.2.3.5 The Keyword-Driven Architecture
  • 6.2.4 Creating Keyword-Driven Tables
  • 6.2.4.1 Building an Intelligent Front End
  • 6.2.4.2 Keywords and the Virtual Machine
  • 6.2.4.3 Benefits of the Keyword Architecture
  • 6.2.4.4 Creating Keyword-Driven Tables Exercise
  • 6.2.4.5 Keyword-Driven Exercise Debrief
  • 6.3 Specific Test Tools
  • 6.3.1 Fault Seeding and Fault Injection Tools
  • 6.3.2 Performance Testing and Monitoring Tools
  • 6.3.2.1 Data for Performance Testing
  • 6.3.2.2 Building Scripts
  • 6.3.2.3 Measurement Tools
  • 6.3.2.4 Performing the Testing
  • 6.3.2.5 Performance Testing Exercise
  • 6.3.2.6 Performance Testing Debrief
  • 6.3.3 Tools for Web Testing
  • 6.3.4 Model-Based Testing Tools
  • 6.3.5 Tools to Support Component Testing and Build Process
  • 6.4 Sample Exam Questions
  • 7 Preparing for the Exam
  • Appendix
  • A: Bibliography
  • Advanced Syllabus Referenced Standards
  • Advanced Syllabus Referenced Books
  • Advanced Syllabus Other References
  • Other Referenced Books
  • Other References
  • Referenced Standards.
  • B: HELLOCARMS The Next Generation of Home Equity Lending System Requirements Document
  • I Table of Contents
  • II Versioning
  • III Glossary
  • 000 Introduction
  • 001 Informal Use Case
  • 003 Scope
  • 004 System Business Benefits
  • 010 Functional System Requirements
  • 020 Reliability System Requirements
  • 030 Usability System Requirements
  • 040 Efficiency System Requirements
  • 050 Maintainability System Requirements
  • 060 Portability System Requirements
  • A Acknowledgement
  • C: Answers to Sample Questions
  • Index.

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