Testing

This practical handbook provides a step-by-step guide for you to get the best continuous delivery pipeline for your software.

A practical handbook packed with real-world advice to help you write better code, adopt effective developer habits, and build great software.

With the advent of LLMs and AI coding assistants, we are generating code at an ever-accelerating rate. How do we manage this influx of code without getting fatigued and overwhelmed? How do we ensure coding standards are maintained? What practices and tools can we put in place to amplify our efforts while not introducing more bugs?

Are you a VP or Head of Engineering considering the best quality engineering model for your company? Are you a director of Engineering tasked with rolling out a Quality Coach Model? Are you a test lead or software tester shifting to a quality coach role? The Quality Coach Handbook is your practical guide to shifting to a model where the whole team owns quality and in particular software engineers design, build, test and support software. Print version: Paperback and hardcover are available on Amazon. Use your country's Amazon site (e.g., Amazon.com.au for Australia) to minimise shipping time and cost.

The latest version of WebAssembly has arrived and it has some really cool new features. I knew that I had to completely rewrite this book to make sure it was up to date. Now, here we are. Within this book, I will take you from the very basics of memory, control flow, and the mechanics that make Wasm work, through to compiling multiple languages, building multi-threaded applications, and optimising for real-world performance.

Most enterprises can deliver fast, but few can adapt at scale.The Cybernetic Enterprise introduces a unifying operating model that embeds AI, feedback loops, and platform thinking into the DNA of your organization. Learn how to build a system that senses change, learns continuously, and transforms disruption into strategic advantage.

A true classic, not just in computing but in the broad area of scholarship. It is partly about the philosophy and mechanisms of science; partly about designing things so they work but mostly it is about how humans view the world and create things that match that view. This book will still be worth reading for a long time to come. - Charles Ashbacher

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from the Software Diagnostics and Observability Institute and the Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, and software trace and log analysis written from 15 April 2024 to 14 November 2025.

In this book, I have considered options with practical applications. This book also provides many examples of programming languages for further use in projects.

In today’s fast-paced development world, writing reliable code is crucial. But with countless testing tools available, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. That’s where the Java Testing Toolbox comes in - a practical, hands-on guide to the 30 most important testing tools and libraries every Java developer should know. Whether you’re new to testing or looking to expand your testing toolkit, this book provides right-sized introductions to each tool, giving you exactly what you need without the fluff.

Learn how real databases work by following this practical guide to building your own in a programming language of your choice.Build a language from scratch- Create an interpreter that can parse, type check and run SQL queries. Start with running simple queries and build up to more complex ones.Learn SQL (the fun way) - Gain a deeper understanding of SQL. Cover the order of execution of queries, how SQL uses ternary logic and the techniques that databases use to join and group data efficiently. Compare your implementation with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and DuckDB.Improve as a programmer- The perfect project to practice how to structure and refactor code as you grow the feature set of your database server. The 200+ included test cases provide a safety net for refactoring your code, giving you freedom to experiment. Learn computer science topics including creating a recursive descent parser, building a type checker and implementing iterators.

You heard about the Manager's Path and about the Staff Engineers Path - let's look into the path for staff-level testing roles

Agile Testing Condensed presents a concise, easy-to-read overview of how to succeed with testing and build a quality culture in an agile context.

Real-world advice for adding reliable tests to your Rails apps with the default tools (mostly), complete with expanded, exclusive content and a full sample application. Learn to test with confidence!

Humans vs Computers is a book about ordinary people caught between wrong assumptions and computer bugs. You’ll read about humans who are invisible to machines, how a default password once caused a zombie apocalypse and why airlines sometimes give away free tickets. This is also a book on how to prevent, avoid and reduce the impact of such problems.