Conclusion

Congratulations on reaching the end of the book! You have just learned a vast amount about software testing, which I painstakingly pieced together after decades of research, training, and trial and error. I’ve worked on a wide variety of products in many different roles and with many amazing engineers. If you can apply these lessons to test your product, you will uncover a host of issues and be able to release code with far more confidence.

This book describes just one step in the software development process: what tests you should run against your code. With an application sitting in front of you, what should you do to uncover its defects and gain confidence that it is of high quality? Testing is a vital step to ensure software quality, but it is far from the only one.

This book hasn’t covered important topics such as designing quality in code and code testability, test team organization and approaches, investigating and raising bugs, or managing risk...