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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Appendix – Self-Assessment

Assessment

The early approach to AI – it’s all thanks to mathematics

Artificial intelligence is, at its core, a set of mathematical functions and algorithms that help us achieve a purpose. Different purposes require different algorithms. Therefore, if you want to learn and/or use artificial intelligence to help you engage the quality of your system, it would be convenient for you to learn to love mathematics and learn some core mathematical concepts.

Lucky for us, some experts dedicate themselves to perfecting these algorithms so that we can use some predefined functions rather than having to write them on our own. However, as we discussed at the beginning of this chapter, if you know what the functions do, you will understand what to look for and which one of them to use.

There are different sets of definitions for AI. My favorite one is that of Luger and Stubblefield in 1993:

Artificial intelligence

“[AI is the] branch of computer science that is concerned...