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Just how critical is testing to the success of a software project? This unique book offers essays from 25 leading software testers that illustrate the qualities and techniques necessary to make testing an art in itself.

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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 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

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Title Beautiful Testing
Author Tim Riley (Editor); Adam Goucher (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 347
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher O'Reilly Media
Publication date 2009-12-01
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780596159818 / 0596159811
Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
Dimensions 9.1 x 7.08 x 0.82 in (23.11 x 17.98 x 2.08 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
Category Computers - Languages / Programming
Dewey Decimal Code 004

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Tim Riley is the Director of Quality Assurance at Mozilla. He has tested software for 18 years including everything from spacecraft simulators, ground control systems, high security operating systems, language platforms, application servers, hosted services and open source web applications. He has managed software testing teams in startups to large corporations consisting of 3 to 120 people in size and in up to 6 countries. He has a software patent for a testing execution framework which matches test suites to available test systems. He enjoys being a breeder caretaker for Canine Companions for Independence (cci.org) along with live and studio sound engineering.

Adam Goucher has been testing software professionally for over ten years. In that time he has worked with start-ups, large multi-nationals and ones in between in both traditional and agile testing environments. A believer in the communication of ideas big and small, he writes frequently at http: //adam.goucher.ca and teaches testing skills at a Toronto area technical college. In his off hours he can be found either playing or coaching box lacrosse - and then promptly applying lessons learned to testing. He is also an active member of the Association for Software Testing.

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