How to Test a Time Machine

Explore end-to-end solutions for test architecture and methodologies to achieve better quality and faster software projects to take your testing career to the next level

Key Features

• Explore the full test architecture spectrum
• Work through a range of applications that are hard to automate with real-world scenarios
• Discover easy-to-follow start-up examples, including DevOps for testing, AI, XR, and cloud

Book Description

Every application is different, be it banking with AI, VR gaming, or you could even have just invented a time machine. However, they all have one thing in common—the need to deliver quality for user satisfaction, security, and reliability. Recently, more companies are shifting left, leaving a lot of quality responsibilities to developers. This book will help test owners identify the different levels of quality a company can be in and how to achieve the next one, all while finding new practical advice on how to own quality and use it to for career progression.

One of the key things you'll learn in this book is how to determine the best system for measuring and delivering quality for your company. As you progress, you'll begin to identify where you stand in terms of quality and explore techniques and tools to take it to the next level.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to deliver higher quality in whatever you are doing, appreciate automation as a tool to achieve faster results even beyond testing, and understand the different roles and types of testing.

What you will learn

• Identify quality maturity and processes to get your product to the next quality level
• Understand how to think out of the box for testing
• Become familiar with the different types of tests and how to apply them from a unique perspective
• Find out how to apply different technologies to testing
• Polish your testing skills with fun code exercises and tools
• Take charge of quality and use it for career growth

Who This Book Is For

This practical book is for test owners, including developers, managers, manual QAs, SDETS, team leads, and systems engineers, who wish to get started with or improve their current QA systems. Test owners looking for inspiration and out-of-the-box solutions to overcome challenging issues will enjoy working through this book.

Table of Contents

1. Find your QA level
2. The Secret Passages of the Test Pyramid - The Base of the Pyramid
3. The Secret Passages of the Test Pyramid-- The Middle of the Pyramid
4. The Secret Passages of the Test Pyramid - The Top of the Pyramid
5. Testing Automation Patterns
6. Continuous Testing - CI/CD and other DevOps Concepts You Should Know
7. Mathematics and Algorithms in Testing
8. Artificial Intelligence is the New Intelligence
9. Having Your Head up in the Clouds
10. Travelling across Realities
11. How to Test a Time Machine (and Other Hard-to-Test Applications)
12. Taking Your Testing to the Next Level