Summary


This chapter wraps up Part III which covered a lot of groundfrom video card settings to Hungarian localization to ugly websites. These topics are just a small piece of the total software world. That diversity is what makes software testing a limitless challenge. Every day new and exciting types of software are released, always pushing the technology forward and creating unique and interesting testing problems to solve. Website testing is a good topic for this chapter, today, but who knows what it will be in the future.

Hopefully in reading the chapters in Part III you realized that you or a small test team could easily be overwhelmed by the magnitude of testing even a small software product or website. A few hundred lines of code written by a single programmer with all its possible platforms, configurations, languages, and users could require dozens or even hundreds of testers to thoroughly test them. The combinations and permutations are endless and, even with careful equivalence partitioning to reduce the number of cases, the job can still seem too big to handle.

In the next two chapters, you'll learn how to leverage both tools and people to bring this huge task down to a manageable size.



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

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