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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
10
Part 3 Going to the Next Level – New Technologies and Inspiring Stories
Appendix – Self-Assessment

Quality growth

To create the best quality of applications, we must make sure that we have the right roles in our team. Note that I purposely did not specify the usual right people for the job because I feel some people might work well in different roles. Let us then review what types of roles are available in quality.

Roles for testing

We discussed the roles for testing in the very first chapter of this book Chapter 1, Introduction – Finding Your QA Level. Feel free to review that chapter for more information if you do not feel comfortable with the descriptions in this chapter. In order to look for the right skills to grow within a company, it is imperative that you understand what the exact role entails. As we mentioned in Chapter 1, different companies define the roles differently, so job descriptions and internal descriptions are a good way of figuring out the needs for each position. If your company does not have such descriptions, you can help them create them. I...