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Testing IT: An Off-the-Shelf Software Testing Process / Edition 2
- ISBN-10:
- 0521148014
- ISBN-13:
- 9780521148016
- Pub. Date:
- 12/06/2010
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0521148014
- ISBN-13:
- 9780521148016
- Pub. Date:
- 12/06/2010
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Testing IT: An Off-the-Shelf Software Testing Process / Edition 2
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780521148016 |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date: | 12/06/2010 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Simon Mills has more than thirty years of experience in the field of software quality, having transferred into the world of system testing from a business role. Simon has been involved in testing software in both business and technical or scientific environments from major investment and insurance systems to laser control, cryogenic control, and superconducting applications. He is the founder of Ingenuity System Testing Services, the preeminent testing authority in the field of electronically traded insurance in the United Kingdom. Simon is widely published internationally in conference proceedings, papers, and contributions to books and has presented as an invited speaker in the United States, at EuroStar, and at the World Congress for Software Quality.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; Part I. The Traditional Testing Process: 2. An overview of testing; 3. Testing techniques; 4. The management and planning of testing; 5. Unit testing; 6. Integration testing; 7. System testing; 8. Systems integration testing; 9. User acceptance testing; 10. Operations acceptance testing; 11. Regression testing; 12. Improving the testing process; 13. Introduction, adoption and maintenance of the testing process; 14. Agile testing; Part II. The Testing Process in the Real World: Illustrative Case Studies: 15. Case Study 1. The British Library; 16. Case Study 2. Reuters product acceptance group; 17. Case Study 3. Crown quality assurance group; 18. Case Study 4. The Wine Society; 19. Case Study 5. Automatic Data Processing Limited; 20. Case Study 6. Confirmit; Part III. The Appendices: Appendix A. Terms of reference for testing staff; Appendix B. Testing guides; Appendix C. Test plan document template; Appendix D. Test specification document template; Appendix E. Test script template; Appendix F. Test result record form template; Appendix G. Test log template; Appendix H. Test certificate template; Appendix I. Re-use pack checklist; Appendix J. Test summary report template; Appendix K. Equivalence partition example; Appendix L. Boundary value analysis example; Appendix M. State transition example; Appendix N. Pairwise testing example; Appendix O. Automated testing tool selection criteria; Appendix P. Usability testing; Appendix Q. Testing process health check; Appendix R. The testing of object-oriented software; Appendix S. Pragmatic test process adoption - a real world example.Introduction
1.1 Purpose of the Book
This book provides comprehensive and rigorous guidance to workers in the field of software testing for researching or setting up a software testing process within organizations.The book provides advice and guidance on all aspects of the testing process, including:
- The need to test software and the approach to testing
- Specific details of testing techniques with worked examples
- The planning and management of testing projects
- Testing roles and responsibilities
- Comprehensive details of the testing phases
- Extensive testing document templates, proformas, and checklists
- Recommendations for testing process improvement and the role and use of metrics
- The testing issues facing developers of Object-Oriented and ComponentBased systems
The book also covers the acceptance testing of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software procured by an organization, or COTS software that has undergone development either internally or by a third party on behalf of an organization.
This book should be used in a pragmatic manner, in effect providing a testing framework that can be used by all members of staff involved in software development and testing within an organization to improve the quality of the software they deliver and to reduce timescales, effort, and cost of testing.
Alternatively, the testing process described in this book can be customized to match the specific testing requirements of any particular organization, and a series of realworld case studies are provided to illustrate how this can be achieved.
1.2 Readership
The target audience for this book includes the following people:- Technical Director/Managers who need to improve the software testing process within their organization (in terms of quality, productivity, cost, and/or repeatability of the process)
- Quality Assurance (QA) professionals (such as company QA Directors or Managers) who need to put in place a formal organization-wide approach to software testing
- Project Managers/Leaders who need to save time, effort, and money and improve quality by adopting a complete, standard, off-the-shelf solution to their testing requirements
- Independent Information Technology (IT), QA, or Management Consultants who provide advice and guidance to clients on their software testing process, for whom the book will represent a key item in their "Consultants Tool Kit"
- Testing/QA Professionals (such as Test Analysts, Testers, or QA Representatives) who wish to save time and effort by adopting predefined testing artifacts (such as standard templates for Test Script, Test Plan, and Test Specification documents)
- IT Professionals who need to understand the software testing process (such as developers involved in Unit or Integration testing)
- Any staff members who are keen to improve their career prospects by advocating a complete testing solution to their organizations' software testing needs, particularly where there is a need to improve quality or save time, effort, and cost
- Training Managers/Trainers who are in the process of writing or amending testing training materials and who need to obtain a pragmatic view of the testing process and its application
- Students who need to obtain a pragmatic/real-world view of the application of testing theory and principles to organizational software testing requirements, or who have an interest in testing-process improvement and the role and use of metrics
1.3 How to Read This Book
This book is divided into three parts, all closely linked, but each of which can be read and applied separately.Part 1 (Chapters 2-13) documents the "traditional view" of the components comprising a software testing process. Part 1 provides detailed information that can be used as the basis for setting up a testing-process framework tailored to the individual requirements of any organization involved in software testing.
Part 2 (Chapters 14-18) provides a series of case studies that show how a number of organizations have implemented their own testing process based on the "classic view" described in Part 1. These case studies can be read to provide real world guidance on how an individual organization can implement a testing-process framework to meet its own testing requirements.
Part 3 (the appendices) contains a set of standard testing document templates, pro-
formas, and checklists~plus a number of appendices that expand on topics described
in passing in the main body of the book. The standard testing document templates,
proformas, and checklists are also available from the following URL:
Terms in italics are fully defined in the glossary.
1.4 Structure and Content of This Book
Specifically, the chapters and appendices comprising this book are:
- The overall testing approach for that phase
- Test data requirements for that phase
- The roles and responsibilities associated with that phase
- Any particular planning and resourcing issues for that phase
- The inputs to and the outputs from that phase
- A review of the specific testing techniques that are appropriate to that phase.- The British Library
- Reuters Product Acceptance Group
- Crown Quality Assurance Group
- The Wine Society
- Automatic Data Processing (ADP] Limited- Terms of reference for testing staff
- Summary testing guides for each testing phase
- A Test Plan document template
- A Test Specification document template
- A Test Script template
- A Test Result Record Form template
- A Test Log template
- A Test Certificate template
- A Re-use Pack checklist
- A Test Summary Report template- A scheme and set of criteria for evaluating the relative merits of commercially available automated software testing tools
- An overview of the process of Usability Testing and its application
- A scheme and set of criteria for performing an audit of a testing process
- A discussion of the issues involved in the testing of object-oriented and component-based applications