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E-raamat: How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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  • Formaat: 340 pages, 20 Tables, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2011
  • Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • ISBN-13: 9781315169484
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  • Formaat: 340 pages, 20 Tables, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2011
  • Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • ISBN-13: 9781315169484
Plenty of software testing books tell you how to test well; this one tells you how to do it while decreasing your testing budget. A series of essays written by some of the leading minds in software testing, How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing provides tips, tactics, and techniques to help readers accelerate the testing process, improve the performance of the test teams, and lower costs.

The distinguished team of contributorsthat includes corporate test leaders, best paper authors, and keynote speakers from leading software testing conferencessupply concrete suggestions on how to find cost savings without sacrificing outcome. Detailing strategies that testers can immediately put to use to reduce costs, the book explains how to make testing nimble, how to remove bottlenecks in the testing process, and how to locate and track defects efficiently and effectively.

Written in language accessible to non-technical executives, as well as those doing the testing, the book considers the latest advances in test automation, ideology, and technology. Rather than present the perspective of one or two experts in software testing, it supplies the wide-ranging perspectives of a team of experts to help ensure your team can deliver a completed test cycle in less time, with more confidence, and reduced costs.
Foreword ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Authors xix
PART 1 What Will This Cost Us?
Chapter 1 Is This the Right Question?
3(16)
Matt Heusser
Chapter 2 The Cost of Quality
19(18)
Selena Delesie
Chapter 3 Testing Economics: What Is Your Testing Net Worth?
37(12)
Govind Kulkarni
Chapter 4 Opportunity Cost of Testing
49(8)
Catherine Powell
Chapter 5 Trading Money for Time: When Saving Money Doesn't (and When It Does)
57(16)
Michael Larsen
Chapter 6 An Analysis of Costs in Software Testing
73(30)
Michael Bolton
PART 2 What Should We Do?
Chapter 7 Test Readiness: Be Ready to Test When the Software Is Ready to Be Tested
103(16)
Ed Barkley
Chapter 8 Session-Based Test Management
119(18)
Michael Kelly
Chapter 9 Postpone Costs to Next Release
137(18)
Jeroen Rosink
Chapter 10 Cost Reduction through Reusable Test Assets
155(14)
Karen Johns
Chapter 11 You Can't Waste Money on a Defect That Isn't There
169(10)
Petteri Lyytinen
PART 3 How Should We Do It?
Chapter 12 A Nimble Test Plan: Removing the Cost of Overplanning
179(16)
David Gilbert
Chapter 13 Exploiting the Testing Bottleneck
195(18)
Markus Gartner
Chapter 14 Science-Based Test Case Design: Better Coverage, Fewer Tests
213(14)
Gary Gack
Justin Hunter
Chapter 15 Clean Test: Suggestions for Reducing Costs by Increasing Test Craftsmanship
227(18)
Curtis Stuehrenberg
Chapter 16 Rightsizing the Cost of Testing: Tips for Executives
245(16)
Scott Barber
Afterword 261(2)
Appendix A Immediate Strategies to Reduce Test Cost 263(12)
Matt Heusser
Appendix B 25 Tips to Reduce Testing Cost Today 275(12)
Catherine Powell
Appendix C Is It about Cost or Value? 287(10)
Jon Bach
Appendix D Cost of Starting Up a Test Team 297(10)
Anne-Marie Charrett
Index 307
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Matthew Heusser is a software process naturalist and consulting software tester. In the twelve years he has been working in technology, he has worked as a developer, project manager, and test and quality assurance lead. During that time he also managed to serve as lead organizer of the Grand Rapids Perl User Group. Heusser also served as lead organizer for the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference and has presented at STAREast, the Better Software Conference, Googles Test Automation Conference, and the Software Test Professionals Conference. In addition to speaking, Heusser is the author of the influential blog Creative Chaos (http://xndev.blogspot.com) and a contributing editor to Software Test and Quality Assurance magazine. He recently completed a contract as an evening instructor in information systems at Calvin College and served as the lead organizer of the workshop on technical debt. His first contributed work was a chapter in the book Beautiful Testing, published in 2009 by OReilly Media.

Govind Kulkarni has spent seventeen years in software quality assurance and management. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), and TicK IT professional. He has worked with Fortune 500 clients, and has provided test strategy and test management solutions. He is one of the reviewers of the test maturity model integrated (TMMi), is actively doing research in model-based testing, and is devising his own test estimation method called as TPIT. These days he works as a mentor and has trained some two thousand testers all over the world. He manages his own testing Web site http://www.enjoytesting.com and is actively involved in LinkedIn and other forums. He has written more than twenty-five technical papers and is a frequent speaker at testing conferences. He can be reached at govind@enjoytesting.com.