Authors: Alan Page, Ken Johnston
ISBN-13: 9780735624252, ISBN-10: 0735624259
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Date Published: December 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Alan Page has been a software tester for more than 14 years, including more than 12 years at Microsoft Corporation. Currently, he is a test architect in the Engineering Excellence group at Microsoft, where he works with product teams across the company to identify and promote best practices in software testing.
Ken Johnston is Group Manager for testing in the Microsoft Office business group.
It may surprise you to learn that Microsoft employs as many software testers as developers. Less surprising is the emphasis the company places on the testing disciplineand its role in managing quality across a diverse, 150+ product portfolio.
This bookwritten by three of Microsoft’s most prominent test professionalsshares the best practices, tools, and systems used by the company’s 9,000-strong corps of testers. Learn how your colleagues at Microsoft design and manage testing, their approach to training and career development, and what challenges they see ahead. Most important, you’ll get practical insights you can apply for better results in your organization.
Discover how to:
1 Software engineering at Microsoft 3
2 Software test engineers at Microsoft 21
3 Engineering life cycles 41
4 A practical approach to test case design 61
5 Functional testing techniques 73
6 Structural testing techniques 115
7 Analyzing risk with code complexity 145
8 Model-based testing 159
9 Managing bugs and test cases 187
10 Test automation 219
11 Non-functional testing 249
12 Other tools 273
13 Customer feedback systems 297
14 Testing software plus services 317
15 Solving tomorrow's problems today 365
16 Building the future 389
Index 407