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How to Test a Time Machine

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801817028
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Noemí Ferrera Noemí Ferrera
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix – Self-Assessment

Sending your code to the Gym

Gym [8] is Python’s toolkit for reinforcement learning algorithms. This tool is commonly used for solving games, which could help us if we were to create test automation for games. However, it is not the only reinforcement learning tool that exists and games are not the only potential uses for it. In the previous chapter, we created an exploratory web crawler. We could create another version using reinforcement learning so that instead of telling the system where to crawl next, the system will crawl to the areas where crashes are most probable.

Creating a crawler using reinforcement learning might not be the best solution for it, but this is only an example to help us explain this concept in a friendly fashion to qualified experts and to inspire you to think out of the box concerning testing. Furthermore, keep in mind that there are some tools out there that already have crawlers built in, and you might be better off exploring purchasing such...

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