Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software

• Author: Adam Goucher,Tim Riley
• Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
• ISBN: 144938868X
• Category: Computers
• Page: 350
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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 generators All 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 Schröder Clint Talbert Scott Barber Kamran Khan Emily Chen Brian Nitz Remko Tronçon 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

Leading Programmers Explain How They Think

• Author: Greg Wilson,Andy Oram
• Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
• ISBN: 9780596554675
• Category: Computers
• Page: 620
• View: 5725

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How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions to high-profile projects. You will be able to look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts to see problems through their eyes. This is not simply another design patterns book, or another software engineering treatise on the right and wrong way to do things. The authors think aloud as they work through their project's architecture, the tradeoffs made in its construction, and when it was important to break rules. This book contains 33 chapters contributed by Brian Kernighan, KarlFogel, Jon Bentley, Tim Bray, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Michael Feathers,Alberto Savoia, Charles Petzold, Douglas Crockford, Henry S. Warren,Jr., Ashish Gulhati, Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, Jack Dongarra and PiotrLuszczek, Adam Kolawa, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Diomidis Spinellis, AndrewKuchling, Travis E. Oliphant, Ronald Mak, Rogerio Atem de Carvalho andRafael Monnerat, Bryan Cantrill, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, SimonPeyton Jones, Kent Dybvig, William Otte and Douglas C. Schmidt, AndrewPatzer, Andreas Zeller, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Arun Mehta, TV Raman,Laura Wingerd and Christopher Seiwald, and Brian Hayes. Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty International.

Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

• Author: Janet Gregory,Lisa Crispin
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• ISBN: 0133749568
• Category: Computers
• Page: 544
• View: 3355

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Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin pioneered the agile testing discipline with their previous work, Agile Testing. Now, in More Agile Testing, they reflect on all they’ve learned since. They address crucial emerging issues, share evolved agile practices, and cover key issues agile testers have asked to learn more about. Packed with new examples from real teams, this insightful guide offers detailed information about adapting agile testing for your environment; learning from experience and continually improving your test processes; scaling agile testing across teams; and overcoming the pitfalls of automated testing. You’ll find brand-new coverage of agile testing for the enterprise, distributed teams, mobile/embedded systems, regulated environments, data warehouse/BI systems, and DevOps practices. You’ll come away understanding • How to clarify testing activities within the team • Ways to collaborate with business experts to identify valuable features and deliver the right capabilities • How to design automated tests for superior reliability and easier maintenance • How agile team members can improve and expand their testing skills • How to plan “just enough,” balancing small increments with larger feature sets and the entire system • How to use testing to identify and mitigate risks associated with your current agile processes and to prevent defects • How to address challenges within your product or organizational context • How to perform exploratory testing using “personas” and “tours” • Exploratory testing approaches that engage the whole team, using test charters with session- and thread-based techniques • How to bring new agile testers up to speed quickly–without overwhelming them The eBook edition of More Agile Testing also is available as part of a two-eBook collection, The Agile Testing Collection (9780134190624).

• Author: Matthew Heusser,Govind Kulkarni
• Publisher: CRC Press
• ISBN: 1439861560
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 340
• View: 3376

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Plenty of software testing books tell you how to test well; this one tells you how to do it while decreasing your testing budget. A series of essays written by some of the leading minds in software testing, How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing provides tips, tactics, and techniques to help readers accelerate the testing process, improve the performance of the test teams, and lower costs. The distinguished team of contributors—that includes corporate test leaders, best paper authors, and keynote speakers from leading software testing conferences—supply concrete suggestions on how to find cost savings without sacrificing outcome. Detailing strategies that testers can immediately put to use to reduce costs, the book explains how to make testing nimble, how to remove bottlenecks in the testing process, and how to locate and track defects efficiently and effectively. Written in language accessible to non-technical executives, as well as those doing the testing, the book considers the latest advances in test automation, ideology, and technology. Rather than present the perspective of one or two experts in software testing, it supplies the wide-ranging perspectives of a team of experts to help ensure your team can deliver a completed test cycle in less time, with more confidence, and reduced costs.

• Author: Srinisvasan Desikan, Gopalaswamy Ramesh
• Publisher: Pearson Education India
• ISBN: 9788131727140
• Category: Computer networks
• Page: 503
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Software Testing: Principles and Practices is a comprehensive treatise on software testing. It provides a pragmatic view of testing, addressing emerging areas like extreme testing and ad hoc testing.

• Author: Grace Yi Qiu Zhong,Patricia Noble Sullivan
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: English language
• Page: 651
• View: 9618

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• Author: Don E. Cunningham
• Publisher: Tate Publishing
• ISBN: 159886548X
• Category: Religion
• Page: 205
• View: 7137

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Hope, help, and healing for Christians walking through the valley of divorce are provided by this book. God's healing power is shown from one believer's powerful experience. You will be encouraged as you consider: 1. Issues leading to divorce, 2. Verses of Scripture that show our Lord's unwavering love and understanding heart, 3. Examples of professional counseling that can bring healing along with hope. In telling his own story of divorce and remarriage, Don E. Cunningham shows us the struggle and the pain. With honesty and touches of humor, Don conquers the mountain of uncertainty.

The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas

• Author: Warren Berger
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• ISBN: 1620401460
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 272
• View: 817

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To get the best answer-in business, in life-you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science. It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy-and then abandon as we grow older. Critical to learning, innovation, success, even to happiness-yet often discouraged in our schools and workplaces-it can unlock new business opportunities and reinvent industries, spark creative insights at many levels, and provide a transformative new outlook on life. It is the ability to question-and to do so deeply, imaginatively, and “beautifully.” In this fascinating exploration of the surprising power of questioning, innovation expert Warren Berger reveals that powerhouse businesses like Google, Nike, and Netflix, as well as hot Silicon Valley startups like Pandora and Airbnb, are fueled by the ability to ask fundamental, game-changing questions. But Berger also shares human stories of people using questioning to solve everyday problems-from “How can I adapt my career in a time of constant change?” to “How can I step back from the daily rush and figure out what really makes me happy?” By showing how to approach questioning with an open, curious mind and a willingness to work through a series of “Why,” “What if,” and “How” queries, Berger offers an inspiring framework of how we can all arrive at better solutions, fresh possibilities, and greater success in business and life.

Eight Weeks to the Smoothest, Healthiest Skin of Your Life

• Author: Michelle Copeland,Megan Deem
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• ISBN: 1429982241
• Category: Health & Fitness
• Page: 192
• View: 5884

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A world-renowned cosmetic, plastic, and reconstructive surgeon shares her clinically proven techniques for achieving your healthiest and youngest-looking skin ever. Current understanding of skin's cellular structure is so advanced that it's possible to turn back the clock on aging without resorting to costly treatments or surgery. You can erase 90 percent of your skin's flaws in eight weeks by following Dr. Copeland's advice, no matter how your skin appears right now. Dr. Copeland's Beautiful Skin Workout will teach you how to: * Follow the Ten Commandments of Creamy Skin * Eliminate lifestyle habits that prevent you from looking your best * Identify everyday products that are either ineffective or outright harmful for skin * Master the Five Exercises: Cleanse, Exfoliate, Activate, Moisturize, and Protect * Design a custom program based on your skin type. With Dr. Copeland's proven plan, illustrated by some of her patients' inspiring and instructional case histories, achieving Creamy skin is easy and inexpensive. Your skin will soon reveal the only truth that matters—how young and vital you feel.

• Author: Jay Couture
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
• ISBN: 1450062997
• Category: Poetry
• Page: 62
• View: 7731

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Honest, candid, and real emotions are set forth in this endearing poetry anthology by poet-author Jay Couture. Brimming with open sentiments and poignant words, Beautiful Pressure weaves Coutures experiences, memories, thoughts, and observations into one emotive and moving collection. He celebrates love, women, life, children, passion, and more through his poems. He shares his ideas and descriptions through bluntly penned down words. His expressions of what life is and should be are beautifully captured in the verses of his poetry. Touching, thoughtful, and stirring, Coutures poetry is sure to treat you with a literary feast as it mirrors what you think, feel, and do. Let the Beautiful Pressure of life and love do its magic on you.