Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software (Theory in Practice)

丛 书 名：Theory in Practice

版本说明：1

作     者：Tim Riley Adam Goucher 

I S B N：(纸本) 0596159811;9780596159818 

出 版 社：O'Reilly Media 

出 版 年：2009年

主 题 词：Quality Control Testing - Programming General Software Engineering 

摘      要：Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it s a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good ideas. Beautiful Testing offers 23 essays from 27 leading testers and developers that illustrate the qualities and techniques that make testing an art. Through personal anecdotes, you ll learn how each of these professionals developed beautiful ways of testing a wide range of products -- valuable knowledge that you can apply to your own projects. Here s a sample of what you ll find inside: Microsoft s Alan Page knows a lot about large-scale test automation, and shares some of his secrets on how to make it beautiful Scott Barber explains why performance testing needs to be a collaborative process, rather than simply an exercise in measuring speed Karen Johnson describes how her professional experience intersected her personal life while testing medical software Rex Black reveals how satisfying stakeholders for 25 years is a beautiful thing Mathematician John D. Cook applies a classic definition of beauty, based on complexity and unity, to testing random number generatorsAll author royalties will be donated to the Nothing But Nets campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a disease that kills millions of children in Africa each year. This book includes contributions from: Adam Goucher Linda Wilkinson Rex Black Martin Schrder Clint Talbert Scott Barber Kamran Khan Emily Chen Brian Nitz Remko Tronon Alan Page Neal Norwitz Michelle Levesque Jeffrey Yasskin John D. Cook Murali Nandigama Karen N. Johnson Chris McMahon Jennitta Andrea Lisa Crispin Matt Heusser Andreas Zeller David Schuler Tomasz Kojm Adam Christian Tim Riley Isaac Clerencia