15 INDUSTRY APPROACHES TO TESTING

‘Software never was perfect and won’t get perfect. But is that a licence to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.’

– Boris Beizer

In this chapter we examine modern trends in software testing.

AUTOMATED TOOLS

Testing is often a time-intensive process and developers need feedback quickly in order to remediate problems with their code. The rise of automated tools makes this process less painful. Of the many available, common automated tools include IBM Rational Functional Tester, Ranorex, Selenium and TestComplete.

It is beyond the scope of this book to describe all those available and it should be remembered that each tool typically supports multiple programming languages ...

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