Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: The Practice of Software Testing
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Testing and Designing Tests
Jumping into testing
The impossibility of complete testing
What is the EVP asking for?
Toward a theory of error
Testing software – an example
Testing software – an analysis
Quick attacks – the airdropped tester
Test design – input space coverage
Equivalence classes and boundaries
Decision tables
Decision trees
All-pairs and pairwise testing
High volume automated approaches
Other approaches
Data and predictability – the oracle problem
Summary
Further reading
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Fundamental Issues in Tooling and Automation
Technical requirements
No silver bullets – you can’t radically fix the test cycle
The minefield regression problem
Coverage model
The Battleships ...
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