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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

Tools for XR development

In order to get familiar with the XR environment, a good idea is to try to create an XR application and check the type of testing that could be done on it. In this section, rather than looking at specific XR test tools, we will look at some XR development tools and talk about their test capabilities.

The intention of this section is not to do an exhaustive analysis and comparison for each of them, but a brief summary so that you are familiar with them and can consider a trial if you have not used them as of yet. As much as we would like to have an easy (but likely biased) answer to which one to pick, you should do more research about what tool would work best for your company, including development language, support, cost, performance, and any other requirements, and make sure you do a few trials before deciding on one.

One important thing to note for all of these tools is that XR applications have high performance requirements, so make sure you pick...