You're reading from How to Test a Time Machine A practical guide to test architecture and automation

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801817028

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Test Driven Development

Author (1):

Noemí Ferrera

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 Getting Started – Understanding Where You Are and Where You Want to Go

2. Chapter 1: Introduction – Finding Your QA Level FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Secret Passages of the Test Pyramid – The Base of the Pyramid

4. Chapter 3: The Secret Passages of the Test Pyramid – the Middle of the Pyramid

5. Chapter 4: The Secret Passages of the Test Pyramid – the Top of the Pyramid

6. Part 2 Changing the Status – Tips for Better Quality

7. Chapter 5: Testing Automation Patterns

8. Chapter 6: Continuous Testing – CI/CD and Other DevOps Concepts You Should Know

9. Chapter 7: Mathematics and Algorithms in Testing

10. Part 3 Going to the Next Level – New Technologies and Inspiring Stories

11. Chapter 8: Artificial Intelligence is the New Intelligence

12. Chapter 9: Having Your Head up in the Clouds

13. Chapter 10: Traveling Across Realities

14. Chapter 11: How to Test a Time Machine (and Other Hard-to-Test Applications)

15. Chapter 12: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level

16. Index

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17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix – Self-Assessment

Assessment

Tools for CI/CD

In this section, we will mention some of the tools I have seen during my career, with no preference for any of them specifically. We are sure (in fact, we hope) that you are able to find alternatives and consider the best ones for you. These are just examples, and we are sure there are many other interesting ones.

We have divided the various tools into sections, but nowadays most tools allow for several uses.

Programming languages

Most of the CI/CD tools would use some programming language to specify the instruction of what the deployments need to do at every step, such as running tests, installing commands, and so on. Each favors one programming language over another, but in my mind, there are some that you should be familiar with. In the following table, we provide a summary of interesting languages to get familiar with. The new concepts or words in the table will be reviewed in the following sections.

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