How We Test Software at Microsoft by Alan Page, Ken Johnston, Ken Johnston
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- Pub. Date: December 2008
- 448pp
- Sales Rank: 102,704
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: December 2008
- Publisher: Microsoft Press
- Format: Paperback, 448pp
- Sales Rank: 102,704
- ISBN-13: 9780735624252
- ISBN: 0735624259
Synopsis
Discover how Microsoft implements and manages a company-wide software-testing process-straight from testers at Microsoft. Software testing requires people, processes, and tools. Organizing a testing program is resource intensive, even when necessary tradeoffs are made-no development team can test every scenario. And using a company-wide process is a challenging issue for most organizations. This book explains how a worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions-with 8,000 testers-implements and manages its testing process. It includes expert insights and effective testing techniques and methodologies-including the pros and cons of various approaches. To provide interesting context, it also provides facts about Microsoft, including the number of test machines, how the company uses automated test cases, and the number of bugs entered for products. Ideal for both testers and test managers, this book answers key testing questions, such as who tests what, when, and with what tools. It covers how test teams are organized, when and how testing is automated, tools used for testing, and feedback details-with insights for all software-development groups.
Key Book Benefits:
• Delivers a consolidated list of highly effective testing techniques and methodologies-including pros and cons of different approaches
• Provides expert insights into testing at Microsoft
• Includes interesting facts about Microsoft, such as number of test machines, use of automated test cases, and numbers of bugs entered in a product or across all products
• Features information about future thoughts on testing and verification methods
Biography
Alan Page has been a software tester for more than 14 years, including more than 12 years at Microsoft Corporation. Currently, he is a test architect in the Engineering Excellence group at Microsoft, where he works with product teams across the company to identify and promote best practices in software testing.
Ken Johnston is Group Manager for testing in the Microsoft Office business group.
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Excellent book with lots of technical and MS inside infoby Boulderdash
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February 23, 2009: A best practice book it is loaded with real life experience of the authors (Alan Page, Ken Johnston and Bj Rollison).
It is loaded with detailed information of MS engineering processes, the tester's (aka SDET) role, common testing techniques and much more.Alan, Ken and Bj have divided the chapters authoring among them. Each has his own way of writing, although different in style, the final result is excellent. I highly recommend the book for all those who are into software testing.Filled with real practical adviceby BugHunter
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February 01, 2009:
I have read a few books on software testing and this one is the best yet. The authors of this book have done a great job of distilling real world experience into practical techniques. It starts by explaining how Microsoft organizes to ship software and the role testers fill.
I have been a tester at a few different companies and even worked on some Microsoft products but not for Microsoft. This book provided me great insights into how Microsoft works and new tools to use in my own work.
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