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How Google Tests Software by James A. Whittaker

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How Google Tests Software

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James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon, Jeff Carollo

Pearson Education · Print & ebook · March 23, 2012

Reading lane: Testing & QA

2012 Jolt Award finalist!

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

Testing at Scale

A practical look at Google’s software-testing techniques, from risk planning to continuous builds.

Come here for

  • Risk analysis and test planning
  • Exploratory, black-box, and white-box testing

Expect

  • Coverage from code reviews to services and infrastructure
  • Tools and workflows aimed at making testing an accelerator

Book Details

Authors
James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon, Jeff Carollo
Publisher
Pearson Education
Published
March 23, 2012
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Testing & QA · Software Development
Reading lane
Testing & QA

Affinity

Publisher Categories

  • Testing & QA

About This Book

2012 Jolt Award finalist! Pioneering the Future of Software Test Do you need to get it right, too? Then, learn from Google . Legendary testing expert James Whittaker, until recently a Google testing leader, and two top Google experts reveal exactly how Google tests software, offering brand-new best practices you can use even if you’re not quite Google’s size… yet! Breakthrough Techniques You Can Actually Use Discover 100% practical, amazingly scalable techniques for analyzin...

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2012 Jolt Award finalist! Pioneering the Future of Software Test Do you need to get it right, too? Then, learn from Google . Legendary testing expert James Whittaker, until recently a Google testing leader, and two top Google experts reveal exactly how Google tests software, offering brand-new best practices you can use even if you’re not quite Google’s size… yet! Breakthrough Techniques You Can Actually Use Discover 100% practical, amazingly scalable techniques for analyzing risk and planning tests…thinking like real users…implementing exploratory, black box, white box, and acceptance testing…getting usable feedback…tracking issues…choosing and creating tools…testing “Docs & Mocks,” interfaces, classes, modules, libraries, binaries, services, and infrastructure…reviewing code and refactoring…using test hooks, presubmit scripts, queues, continuous builds, and more. With these techniques, you can transform testing from a bottleneck into an accelerator –and make your whole organization more productive!

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