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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
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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

How to test a time machine

You are probably wondering how we came up with the unique title of this book as well as this chapter. It all began with an idea I wrote on my blog – if a time machine were to exist, how would you test it?

This comes from a typical test interview question in which the interviewer would ask the interviewee how to test some object, and try to identify/organize the cases in different types of tests. The question might appear silly, but it actually tells a lot about the interviewee’s testing capabilities, out-of-the-box thinking, curiosity, inventive and testing knowledge.

Therefore, feel free to take a pause from reading, take a notepad, and do this exercise – if time machines were to exist, how would you design the testing for them? Start writing everything that comes to mind. Then, keep reading to see whether there was something that we or you have missed.

At the end of the day, when it comes to testing an application, you may...