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 Format: Paperback, 208 pages
Edition: BK&CD-ROM
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0201796198
Release Date: Jan 1, 1997
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Practical tutorial on how to actually do testing by presenting numerous "attacks" you can perform to test your software for bugs. - Practical approach has little or no theory, but shows real ways effectively test software—accessible to beginners and seasoned testers.
- The author is well known and respected as an industry consultant and speaker.
- Uses market leading, and immediately identifiable, software applications as examples to show bugs and techniques.
How to Break Software is a departure from conventional testing in which testers prepare a written test plan and then use it as a script when testing the software. The testing techniques in this book are as flexible as conventional testing is rigid. And flexibility is needed in software projects in which requirements can change, bugs can become features and schedule pressures often force plans to be reassessed. Software testing is not such an exact science that one can determine what to test in advance and then execute the plan and be done with it. Instead of a plan, intelligence, insight, experience and a "nose for where the bugs are hiding" should guide testers. This book helps testers develop this insight. The techniques presented in this book not only allow testers to go off-script, they encourage them to do so. Don't blindly follow a document that may be out of date and that was written before the product was even testable. Instead, use your head! Open your eyes! Think a little, test a little and then think a little more. This book does teach planning, but in an "on- the-fly while you are testing" way. It also encourages automation with many repetitive andcomplex tasks that require good tools (one such tool is shipped with this book on the companion CD). However, tools are never used as a replacement for intelligence. Testers do the thinking and use tools to collect data and help them explore applications more efficiently and effectively.
James A. Whittaker is a well-known speaker and consultant, as well as seasoned professor.
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| | | |  | | | | Dedication | | | Preface | | | Acknowledgments | | | Chapter Summaries | | | Pt. 1 | Introduction | 1 | | Ch. 1 | A Fault Model to Guide Software Testing | 3 | | Pt. 2 | User Interface Attacks | 17 | | Ch. 2 | Testing from the User Interface: Inputs and Outputs | 19 | | Ch. 3 | Testing from the User Interface: Data and Computation | 57 | | Pt. 3 | System Interface Attacks | 81 | | Ch. 4 | Testing from the File System Interface | 83 | | Ch. 5 | Testing from the Software/OS Interface | 105 | | Pt. 4 | Conclusion | 121 | | Ch. 6 | Some Parting Advice | 123 | | Appendixes | 127 | | Annotated Glossary of Programming Terms | 129 | | App. A | Testing Exception and Error Cases Using Runtime Fault Injection | 135 | | App. B | Using HEAT: The Hostile Environment Application Tester | 153 | | App. C | What is Software Testing? And Why is it So Hard? | 159 | | The Software Testing Problem | 170 | | Index | 175 |
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