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How to Test a Time Machine

By : Noemí Ferrera
Book Image

How to Test a Time Machine

By: Noemí Ferrera

Overview of this book

From simple websites to complex applications, delivering quality is crucial for achieving customer satisfaction. How to Test a Time Machine provides step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples to show you how you can leverage your company's test architecture from different points in the development life cycle. You'll begin by determining the most effective system for measuring and improving the delivery of quality applications for your company, and then learn about the test pyramid as you explore it in an innovative way. You'll also cover other testing topics, including cloud, AI, and VR for testing. Complete with techniques, patterns, tools, and exercises, this book will help you enhance your understanding of the testing process. Regardless of your current role within development, you can use this book as a guide to learn all about test architecture and automation and become an expert and advocate for quality assurance. By the end of this book, you'll be able to deliver high-quality applications by implementing the best practices and testing methodologies included in the book.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1 Getting Started – Understanding Where You Are and Where You Want to Go
6
Part 2 Changing the Status – Tips for Better Quality
10
Part 3 Going to the Next Level – New Technologies and Inspiring Stories
Appendix – Self-Assessment

Artificial Intelligence is the New Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a wide scope, and it can help with our testing in several ways. It can also help with creating automation tools. In the previous chapter, we provided an introduction to this topic and gave some examples of where AI could be useful. However, it would be impossible to cover AI fully in this book (consider that AI experts have dedicated their careers to the topic). In this chapter, we will provide an introduction to some of the core topics of AI and see examples of how it is (and could be) useful for testing. Then, we will review applications that use AI so that we can identify them and check whether we need to do anything special to test those. Finally, we will see some other technical examples that might be of use in your application.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Is AI taking my job? Why learn about AI?
  • Core concepts of AI
  • AI for testing
  • Testing...