Exploring TDD with Quality Assurance
Previous chapters have covered the technical practices needed to design and test well-engineered code. The approach presented has been primarily for developers to gain rapid feedback on software design. Testing has been almost a byproduct of these efforts.
The combination of TDD, continuous integration, and pipelines provides us with a high level of confidence in our code. But they are not the whole picture when it comes to software Quality Assurance (QA). Creating the highest-quality software needs additional processes, featuring the human touch. In this chapter, we will highlight the importance of manual exploratory testing, code reviews, user experience, and security testing, together with approaches to adding a human decision point to a software release.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- TDD – its place in the bigger quality picture
- Manual exploratory testing – discovering...
