Agile Testing Foundations
by Rex Black, Gerry Coleman, Bertrand Cornanguer, Marie Walsh, Jan Sabak, Kari Kakkonen, and Istvan Forgacs
Agile testing brings many advantages to software teams, from increasing overall product quality to faster delivery of features. Agile Testing Foundations explains, in an accessible way, the main agile testing concepts to make agile testing a fluent part of agile teams. Building on the ISTQB Foundation Level Agile Tester syllabus, this book covers Agile principles, methods and tools, showing you exactly how Agile testing can help you and your team. Agile testing ideas and practices are introduce...
Blurring is almost an omnipresent effect on natural images. The main causes of blurring in images include: (a) the existence of objects at different depths within the scene which is known as defocus blur; (b) blurring due to motion either of objects in the scene or the imaging device; and (c) blurring due to atmospheric turbulence. Automatic estimation of spatially varying sharpness/blurriness has several applications including depth estimation, image quality assessment, information retrieval,...
How to Find and Fix the Killer Software Bugs that Evade Conventional Testing In Exploratory Software Testing, renowned software testing expert James Whittaker reveals the real causes of today’s most serious, well-hidden software bugs--and introduces powerful new “exploratory” techniques for finding and correcting them. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience working at the cutting edge of testing with Google, Microsoft, and other top software organizations, Whittaker introduces innovati...
How Google Tests Software
by James A Whittaker, Jason Arbon, and Jeff Carollo
2012 Jolt Award finalist! Pioneering the Future of Software Test Do you need to get it right, too? Then, learn from Google. Legendary testing expert James Whittaker, until recently a Google testing leader, and two top Google experts reveal exactly how Google tests software, offering brand-new best practices you can use even if you’re not quite Google’s size…yet! Breakthrough Techniques You Can Actually Use Discover 100% practical, amazingly scalable techniques for analyzing risk and plan...
Following TMMi practices to produce Quality software products (Test Planning with Tmmi Practices, #2)
by Shanthi Kumar Vemulapalli
A practical cookbook, with a perfect package of simple, medium, and advanced recipes targeted at basic programmers as well as expert software testers, who will learn to create, manage, and run automated tests. It is packed with problem-solving recipes that are supported by simple examples.If you are a software tester or a programmer who is involved with testing automation using TestComplete, this book is ideal for you! You will be introduced to the very basics of using the tool, as well as polis...
Optimize the performance of your mobile websites and webapps to the extreme. With this hands-on book, veteran mobile and web developer Maximiliano Firtman demonstrates which aspects of your site or app slow down the user's experience, and what you can do to achieve lightning-fast performance. There's much at stake: if you want to boost your app's conversion rate, then tackling performance issues is the best way to start. Learn tools and techniques for working with responsive web design, images,...
If you are an application developer with some experience in software testing and want to learn more about testing frameworks, then this technology and book is for you. Mockito for Spring will be perfect as your next step towards becoming a competent software tester with Spring and Mockito.
Be Competent in Creating and Using Databases (Tilde Skills 2010)
by Tilde Publishing
Be Competent in Creating and Using Databases Plus Challenges and Assessment Tasks - Microsoft Access 2010 contributes directly to achieving the unit of competency BSBITU301A Create and use databases (Business Services Training Package BSB07). This book would be of interest to those seeking to understand, create and use a relational database.
Distributed Tracing in Practice
by Austin Parker, Daniel Spoonhower, Jonathan Mace, Ben Sigelman, and Rebecca Isaacs
Most applications today are distributed in some fashion. Monitoring the health and performance of these distributed architectures requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring applications-especially those that use microservice architectures. There's just one problem: distributed tracing can be hard. But it doesn't have to be. With this practical guide, you'll learn what distributed tracing is and how to use it to understand the performance and operat...
Ready to build mobile apps that out-perform the rest? If you're an iOS developer with app-building experience, this practical guide provides tips and best practices to help you solve many common performance issues. You'll learn how to design and optimize iOS apps that deliver a smooth experience even when the network is poor and memory is low. Today's picky users want fast and responsive apps that don't hog resources. In this book, author Gaurav Vaish demonstrates methods for writing optimal cod...
Boxer Dog Dad Notebook (Dog Dad Journals and Notebooks, #7)
by Pedigree Prints
DESCRIPTION The massive datasets required for most modern businesses are too large to safely store and efficiently process on a single server. Hadoop is an open source data processing framework that provides a distributed file system that can manage data stored across clusters of servers and implements the MapReduce data processing model so that users can effectively query and utilize big data. The new Hadoop 2.0 is a stable, enterprise-ready platform supported by a rich ecosystem of tools...
Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET (Developer Reference)
by Alexei Vorontsov and James W. Newkirk
With the clarity and precision intrinsic to the Test-Driven Development (TDD) process itself, experts James Newkirk and Alexei Vorontsov demonstrate how to implement TDD principles and practices to drive lean, efficient coding—and better design. The best way to understand TDD is to see it in action, and Newkirk and Vorontsov walk step by step through TDD and refactoring in an n-tier, .NET-connected solution. And, as members of the development team for NUnit, a leading unit-testing framework for...
Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
by - Microsoft Corporation