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

AI for testing

In the previous chapter, we looked at an application of AI for testing: a test case analyzer. Later, in the Test case analysis with machine learning section, we will see a practical example of how to do this using machine learning.

While that particular example could be of direct use to some people, there are many other applications of AI for testing. In this section, we will analyze some other examples that will hopefully inspire you to create more tools that use AI for testing purposes (I would be proud and delighted to add those to future revisions of this book).

Games

As we will see in Chapter 11, How to Test a Time Machine (and Other Hard-to-Test Applications), games are one of the most difficult applications to test due to their indeterministic and dynamic nature. There are different points in which games could present a challenge and in which AI could help us with their testing.

For example, we could use AI to help us create exploratory tests, by using...