A Modern Software Testing Primer
A Modern Software Testing Primer
About the Book
This Primer is for everyone who is interested in quality in software development, and that should be everyone; because delivering poor quality software at speed is a certified recipe for failure.
I’ve tried to distil all I’ve learned from Lean and Devops, and Agile, into this version. The technical references in it will almost certainly be out of date before you read it, but that’s because the world is moving so fast; but the principles should remain the same.
Table of Contents
Preface to the 3rd edition
Introduction - The Need for Testing - Models of Software Development
Quality in Software - Value, Waste and Quality - Built-In Quality - TDD & BDD
Concepts of Testing - The Testing Mindset, Test Early, Test Often, Regression vs. Retesting, White-Box vs Black-Box
Functional Testing - White Box testing - Unit, Integration and System testing - Acceptance Testing - Test Automation
Non-functional Testing - Testing the design - Usability Testing - A/B Testing - Performance Testing
Test Planning - The Purpose of Test Planning - Software in Many Dimensions - Test Identification
Test Preparation -Test Scripting - Test Cases - Acceptance Criteria - Exploratory Testing
Test Execution - Tracking Progress - Adjusting the plan - Defect Management
Reporting and Metrics - Defect Reporting - Metrics of Quality and Efficiency
Release Management - Release Planning - Deployment Planning - Continuous Delivery
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