The Book on Software Testing, Volume 1
The Book on Software Testing, Volume 1
About the Book
The Book on Software Testing, Volume 1 is a compilation of short stories, poems, and vignettes offering perspectives from software testers who attended the Let's Test South Africa 2016 context-driven testing conference, held just outside Johannesburg, South Africa.
Ranging from funny to sad, angry to enthusiastic, assured to inquisitive, every entry rings with the voice of the author who penned it. Leonidas Hepis and Benjamin Segebartt coached the authors on Seven Keys to Insightful Writing, a set of attitudes and exercises to bring every writer's wisdom onto the written page. The resulting vignettes were assembled within a day into this book, now available here.
About the Authors
About the Contributors
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter 1 - Realisations
Correctness, Quality, Zero Defects
Going Into Battle
Retrospective
Keep Doing, Stop Doing, Start Doing
Automation
It's Hard Not to Care
Stand on a Chair
Consider These
Metrics
Constantly Questioning
Chapter 2 - This, Too, Happens
Danger
Happy Customers
The Hand-Me Down Tester
The Deep Irony of Certification
Costly Automation
Interrogation Interview
Anybody But Somebody
Magic
He Said She Said
Chapter 3 - Cultivating a Better Approach
Feedback
Feelings, The Reliable Bug Detectors
Testing is Testing - A Sketchnote
Not Just Working Together
Lizard Brain
Collaboration
Perfectly Imperfect
Turn Testing Around
Elevating The Conversation
Values To Empathy
Keep Your Shirt On - A Sketchnote
Learning While Doing
Fresh Value
Games
One-Up Your Test Game - A Sketchnote
Conflicts
Modeling Reality
Connections in Context
On Writing About Testing
On Turning and Transformations
A Treasure Island, No Map
Chapter 4 - Value of Testing
From an Outsider
Tester Currency
Blame
We Test All Sorts of Things
Does He Bite
In Between Lines of Code
Interrogation
Epilogues
Afterword
Causes Supported
Shine Literacy
Words can change worlds
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