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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

About the Author

SECTION 1 SOFTWARE QUALITY IN PERSPECTIVE

1 A Brief History of Software Testing

Historical Software Testing and Development Parallels

Extreme Programming

Evolution of Automated Testing Tools

Static Capture/Replay Tools (without Scripting Language)

Static Capture/Replay Tools (with Scripting Language)

Variable Capture/Replay Tools

2 Quality Assurance Framework

What Is Quality?

Prevention versus Detection

Verification versus Validation

Software Quality Assurance

Components of Quality Assurance

Software Testing

Quality Control

Software Configuration Management

Elements of Software Configuration Management

Software Quality Assurance Plan

Steps to Develop and Implement a Software ...

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