Summary


Hopefully this chapter opened your eyes to how much more there can be to a software product than the code the programmers write. The software's documentation, in all its forms, created by writers, illustrators, indexers, and so on, can easily take more effort to develop and test than the actual software.

From the user's standpoint, it's all the same product. An online help index that's missing an important term, an incorrect step in the installation instructions, or a blatant misspelling are bugs just like any other software failure. If you properly test the documentation, you'll find the bugs before your users do.

In the next chapter you'll learn about applying your testing skills to an area that's in the news almost dailysoftware security. It's an area that will require particular attention in every task you perform as a software tester from early code and specification reviews to testing the documentation.



    Software Testing
    Lessons Learned in Software Testing
    ISBN: 0471081124
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 233

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