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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)
1
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

Technical requirements

Some degree of programming skills is recommended to get the best out of this chapter, especially for the A basic CT example section. However, it is important that everyone in a company understands the concepts in this chapter.

Therefore, quality experts (SDETs/QA) should be interested in this chapter, as well as developers and DevOps team members. Other roles in the company could also benefit from understanding the concepts in this chapter.

This chapter uses partial examples written in pseudocode, as full code would depend on the tools and platforms used for CI. At the end of the chapter, we will see how to automate a .yml file using Python. Feel free to try this example with your favorite programming language

The code related to these examples can be found in this book’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/How-to-Test-a-Time-Machine/tree/main/Chapter06