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How to Test a Time Machine

By : Noemí Ferrera
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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
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Part 2 Changing the Status – Tips for Better Quality
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Part 3 Going to the Next Level – New Technologies and Inspiring Stories
Appendix – Self-Assessment

Testing applications in the cloud

The other side of cloud testing is when you have applications that, fully or partially, reside in the cloud. This is the case for serverless applications.

Serverless application

An application in which part of it is handled in the cloud—that is, there is a provider that will take care of maintenance and scalability of the (generally back-end) systems required for the application to run.

You might think that the difference between testing fully hosted applications and partially hosted applications is that you can skip some of the tests that generally would take place in those areas. However, while you could skip extensive testing for those areas, it is still important to test the stability of the system and assign contracts and verifications across it to make sure everything works as expected.

In Chapter 3, The Secret Passages of the Test Pyramid – The Middle of the Pyramid, we covered tests such as the ones just mentioned...