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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

Architecting a system

We have seen some of the options we have whe building automation for our system, what is left is how to put our system together, as this book is about test architecture, not only its components.

There are many ways we could automate our system and many choices we could make. A good system architecture will allow you to replace components with others when needed, in such a way that the system will still work.

For example, in this chapter, we have seen how to call different programs within another program in the testReporting.py code. However, in Chapter 6, Continuous Testing – CI/CD and Other DevOps Concepts You Should Know, we did something similar as a part of a CI/CD system in the logAnalizer.py code. How shall we decide between the two ways?

For simple applications or a quick turnaround, we could go for the solution in this chapter. However, if some of the programs that are called with subprocesses were to break (or someone deliberately breaks...

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