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Software Test Design
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Software Test Design
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Overview of this book
Software Test Design details best practices for testing software applications and writing comprehensive test plans. Written by an expert with over twenty years of experience in the high-tech industry, this guide will provide you with training and practical examples to improve your testing skills.
Thorough testing requires a thorough understanding of the functionality under test, informed by exploratory testing and described by a detailed functional specification. This book is divided into three sections, the first of which will describe how best to complete those tasks to start testing from a solid foundation.
Armed with the feature specification, functional testing verifies the visible behavior of features by identifying equivalence partitions, boundary values, and other key test conditions. This section explores techniques such as black- and white-box testing, trying error cases, finding security weaknesses, improving the user experience, and how to maintain your product in the long term.
The final section describes how best to test the limits of your application. How does it behave under failure conditions and can it recover? What is the maximum load it can sustain? And how does it respond when overloaded?
By the end of this book, you will know how to write detailed test plans to improve the quality of your software applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Preface
Part 1 – Preparing to Test
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Chapter 1: Making the Most of Exploratory Testing
Chapter 2: Writing Great Feature Specifications
Chapter 3: How to Run Successful Specification Reviews
Chapter 4: Test Types, Cases, and Environments
Part 2 – Functional Testing
Chapter 5: Black-Box Functional Testing
Chapter 6: White-Box Functional Testing
Chapter 7: Testing of Error Cases
Chapter 8: User Experience Testing
Chapter 9: Security Testing
Chapter 10: Maintainability
Part 3 – Non-Functional Testing
Chapter 11: Destructive Testing
Chapter 12: Load Testing
Chapter 13: Stress Testing
Conclusion
Index
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Appendix – Example Feature Specification
