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Author(s): James A. Whittaker
ISBN(s): 9780321636416, 0321636414
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Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0321636414 
ISBN 13: 9780321636416
Author: James A Whittaker

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?

Exploratory Software Testing Tips Tricks Tours and Techniques to Guide Test Design 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Case for Software Quality

  • The Magic of Software

  • The Failure of Software

  • Conclusion

  • Exercises

Chapter 2: The Case for Manual Testing

  • The Origin of Software Bugs

  • Preventing and Detecting Bugs

  • Preventing Bugs

  • Detecting Bugs

  • Manual Testing

  • Scripted Manual Testing

  • Exploratory Testing

  • Conclusion

  • Exercises

Chapter 3: Exploratory Testing in the Small

  • So You Want to Test Software?

  • Testing Is About Varying Things

  • User Input

  • What You Need to Know About User Input

  • How to Test User Input

  • State

  • What You Need to Know About Software State

  • How to Test Software State

  • Code Paths

  • User Data

  • Environment

  • Conclusion

  • Exercises

Chapter 4: Exploratory Testing in the Large

  • Exploring Software

  • The Tourist Metaphor

  • “Touring” Tests

  • Tours of the Business District

  • Tours Through the Historical District

  • Tours Through the Entertainment District

  • Tours Through the Tourist District

  • Tours Through the Hotel District

  • Tours Through the Seedy District

  • Putting the Tours to Use

  • Conclusion

  • Exercises

Chapter 5: Hybrid Exploratory Testing Techniques

  • Scenarios and Exploration

  • Applying Scenario-Based Exploratory Testing

  • Introducing Variation Through Scenario Operators

    • Inserting Steps

    • Removing Steps

    • Replacing Steps

    • Repeating Steps

  • Data Substitution

  • Environment Substitution

  • Introducing Variation Through Tours

    • The Money Tour

    • The Landmark Tour

    • The Intellectual Tour

    • The Back Alley Tour

    • The Obsessive-Compulsive Tour

    • The All-Nighter Tour

    • The Saboteur

    • The Collector’s Tour

    • The Supermodel Tour

    • The Supporting Actor Tour

    • The Rained-Out Tour

    • The Tour-Crasher Tour

  • Conclusion

  • Exercises

Chapter 6: Exploratory Testing in Practice

  • The Touring Test

  • Touring the Dynamics AX Client

  • Useful Tours for Exploration

  • The Collector’s Tour and Bugs as Souvenirs

  • Tour Tips

  • Using Tours to Find Bugs

  • Testing a Test Case Management Solution

  • The Rained-Out Tour

  • The Saboteur

  • The FedEx Tour

  • The TOGOF Tour

  • The Practice of Tours in Windows Mobile Devices

  • My Approach/Philosophy to Testing

  • Interesting Bugs Found Using Tours

  • Example of the Saboteur

  • Example of the Supermodel Tour

  • The Practice of Tours in Windows Media Player

    • Windows Media Player

    • The Garbage Collector’s Tour

    • The Supermodel Tour

    • The Intellectual Tour

    • The Intellectual Tour: Boundary Subtour

    • The Parking Lot Tour and the Practice of Tours in Visual Studio Team System Test Edition

  • Tours in Sprints

    • Parking Lot Tour

  • Test Planning and Managing with Tours

    • Defining the Landscape

    • Planning with Tours

    • Letting the Tours Run

    • Analysis of Tour Results

    • Making the Call: Milestone/Release

  • In Practice

  • Conclusion

  • Exercises

Chapter 7: Touring and Testing’s Primary Pain Points

  • The Five Pain Points of Software Testing

    • Aimlessness

    • Define What Needs to Be Tested

    • Determine When to Test

    • Determine How to Test

    • Repetitiveness

    • Know What Testing Has Already Occurred

    • Understand When to Inject Variation

    • Transiency

    • Monotony

    • Memorylessness

  • Conclusion

  • Exercises

Chapter 8: The Future of Software Testing

  • Welcome to the Future

  • The Heads-Up Display for Testers

  • “Testipedia”

  • Test Case Reuse

  • Test Atoms and Test Molecules

  • Virtualization of Test Assets

  • Visualization

  • Testing in the Future

  • Post-Release Testing

  • Conclusion

  • Exercises

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