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Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design

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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 and correcting them.   Drawing on nearly two decades of experience working at the cutting edge of testing with Google, Microsoft, and other top software organizations, Whittaker introduces innovative new processes for manual testing that are repeatable, prescriptive, teachable, and extremely effective. Whittaker defines both in-the-small techniques for individual testers and in-the-large techniques to supercharge test teams. He also introduces a hybrid strategy for injecting exploratory concepts into traditional scripted testing. You’ll learn when to use each, and how to use them all successfully.   Concise, entertaining, and actionable, this book introduces robust techniques that have been used extensively by real testers on shipping software, illuminating their actual experiences with these techniques, and the results they’ve achieved. Writing for testers, QA specialists, developers, program managers, and architects alike, Whittaker answers crucial questions such as:   •  Why do some bugs remain invisible to automated testing--and how can I uncover them? •  What techniques will help me consistently discover and eliminate “show stopper” bugs? •  How do I make manual testing more effective--and less boring and unpleasant? •  What’s the most effective high-level test strategy for each project? •  Which inputs should I test when I can’t test them all? •  Which test cases will provide the best feature coverage? •  How can I get better results by combining exploratory testing with traditional script or scenario-based testing? •  How do I reflect feedback from the development process, such as code changes?  

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Alan Page     xv Preface     xvii   Chapter 1    The Case for Software Quality     1 The Magic of Software     1 The Failure of Software     4 Conclusion     9 Exercises     9   Chapter 2    The Case for Manual Testing     11 The Origin of Software Bugs     11 Preventing and Detecting Bugs     12 Manual Testing     14 Conclusion     19 Exercises     20   Chapter 3    Exploratory Testing in the Small     21 So You Want to Test Software?     21 Testing Is About Varying Things     23 User Input     23     What You Need to Know About User Input     24     How to Test User Input     25 State     32     What You Need to Know About Software State     32     How to Test Software State     33 Code Paths     35 User Data     36 Environment     36 Conclusion     37 Exercises     38   Chapter 4    Exploratory Testing in the Large     39 Exploring Software     39 The Tourist Metaphor     41 “Touring” Tests     43     Tours of the Business District     45     Tours Through the Historical District     51     Tours Through the Entertainment District     52     Tours Through the Tourist District     55     Tours Through the Hotel District     58     Tours Through the Seedy District     60 Putting the Tours to Use     62 Conclusion     63 Exercises     64   Chapter 5    Hybrid Exploratory Testing Techniques     65 Scenarios and Exploration     65 Applying Scenario-Based Exploratory Testing     67 Introducing Variation Through Scenario Op


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780321636416
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
  • Depth: 13
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design
  • Width: 179 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0321636414
  • Publisher Date: 17 Sep 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 1
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 428 gr


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