Summary

What you should take away from this chapter and from Chapter 15 is that you should leverage whatever means possible to be an effective tester. One situation might dictate using technology, another might require extra people, another might need just plain old brute force manual testing. Every software testing problem will be unique, and you'll learn something new with each one. Experiment, try different approaches, watch what others do, but always strive to find the best way to make your testing more efficient and more likely to locate those bugs.

This chapter wraps up the book's topics on how to perform software testing. It's been fun. You've learned about the software development process, the basic techniques for software testing, how to apply your skills, and how to supplement what you can do. In Part V, "Working with Test Documentation," you'll see how to pull together everything you've learned so far: how to plan and organize your testing tasks, how to properly record and track the bugs you find, and how to make sure those bugs get fixed.