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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

A basic CT example

In this section, we are going to investigate how it is possible to automate CT from zero, without any tools (other than Git for source control). For simplification, we will not cover CI, but we challenge you to try it yourself as a learning project. Feel free to review the definitions of CI/CD at the beginning of this chapter again if you struggle to understand what would be different.

In our examples, we will be using vstest to create and execute tests, as this can be easily called from batch/cmd and from other programs. This tool generates output that we can add to a text file for later analysis. Then, we will showcase how to create a YAML file to run the entire process to get you familiar with YAML and how it links all the tools together. Finally, we will use Python to call and execute the YAML file. This way, you can see how different tools with different programming languages can interact.

I hope that the concepts explained in this section help you improve...