Who this book is for

Many different people can perform testing during a development cycle. In addition to dedicated testers, developers should always try their code, and product owners, support engineers, and technical writers can also provide more or less formal feedback.

This book is for anyone involved in software testing, regardless of their official job title. Everyone can use the suggestions here to increase test coverage and improve the quality of the features you release.

Testing has a lovely learning curve. You can start with manual testing on easy-to-use public interfaces that have been well polished and documented. From there, you can go deeper into the system, checking logs and metrics and using internal interfaces. Testers with the right skill set can improve code directly by performing code reviews and writing unit tests. This book describes all these approaches to improve your testing, whether you’re a novice or an expert tester.