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- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Software Testing Fundamentals-Methods and Metrics
- Introduction
- Industry and Technology Trends: Why I Think It s Time to Publish This Book
- Changing Times
- Scope of This Book and Who Will Find It Useful
- How This Book Is Organized
- The Standard for Definitions in This Book
- Chapter 1: The State of Software Testing Today
- A Quick Look at How We Got Where We Are
- The Challenges a Tester Faces Today
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Maintaining Quality Assurance in Today s Software Testing Environment
- What s Wrong with This Picture?
- Problems with Traditional Quality Assurance
- What s Not Working: The Traditional Tools for Controlling Quality
- Solution: Improving the Quality Process
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Approaches to Managing Software Testing
- Some Myths about Art, Science, and Software
- The Engineering Approach
- The Eclectic Approach to Integration and Testing: Balancing Art and Engineering
- Current Testing Strategies
- The Best Approach
- Summary
- Chapter 4: The Most Important Tests (MITs) Method
- Overview of MITs
- The Steps for the MITs Method
- Real-World Example: Heavyweight, Middleweight, and Lightweight Development Efforts
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Fundamental Metrics for Software Testing
- Measures and Metrics
- What to Measure in Software Testing
- Summary
- Chapter 6: The Test Inventory
- The Goal: A Successful Test Effort
- Planning for Adequate Testing: How Much Is Enough?
- Determining the Scope of Testing: How Big Is It?
- Reasons for Using an Inventory
- The Sources of the Tests on the Inventory
- Summary
- Chapter 7: How to Build a Test Inventory
- Identifying and Listing the Test Environments
- Adding Detail and Process Layers
- Summary
- For Further Exploration
- Chapter 8: Tools to Automate the Test Inventory
- The Evolving Test Inventory
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Risk Analysis
- The Risk Analysis Process in Brief
- Benefits of Risk Analysis
- Project Management Strategies and Risk
- MITs Risk Analysis
- Case Study: The 401(k) Web Project
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Applied Risk Analysis
- Applying Risk Analysis to the Inventory
- Risk Criteria for Picking Tests
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Path Analysis
- The Legend of the Maze of the Minotaur
- Calculating the Number of Paths through a System
- Summary
- Path Analysis Samples for Further Exploration
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Chapter 12: Applied Path Analysis
- Divide and Conquer
- The Paths Not Counted
- Building Path Test Estimates Quickly
- Path and Data Dependencies
- Summary
- Chapter 13: Data Analysis Techniques
- Testing Data Input by Users (the GUI)
- Boundary Value Analysis
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