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How Google Tests Software, 1st edition

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (March 23, 2012) © 2012

  • James A. Whittaker
  • Jason Arbon
  • Jeff Carollo

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Discover 100% practical, amazingly scalable techniques for analyzing risk and planning tests…thinking like real users…implementing exploratory, black box, white box, and acceptance testing…getting usable feedback…tracking issues…choosing and creating tools…testing “Docs & Mocks,” interfaces, classes, modules, libraries, binaries, services, and infrastructure…reviewing code and refactoring…using test hooks, presubmit scripts, queues, continuous builds, and more. With these techniques, you can transform testing from a bottleneck into an accelerator—and make your whole organization more productive!

  • Presents pioneering testing techniques that can help any company moving to the cloud
  • Shows how to achieve web-level scale for integration and system testing
  • Offers expert guidance on managing end-to-end testing, including superior automation strategies
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to Google Software Testing  
  • Chapter 2: The Software Engineer in Test  
  • Chapter 3: The Test Engineer    
  • Chapter 4: The Test Engineering Manager 
  • Chapter 5: Improving How Google Tests Software  Test Dashboarding
James Whittaker is an engineering director at Google and has been responsible for testing Chrome, maps, and Google web apps. He used to work for Microsoft and was a professor before that. James is one of the best-known names in testing the world over.
Jason Arbon is a test engineer at Google and has been responsible for testing Google Desktop, Chrome, and Chrome OS. He also served as development lead for an array of open-source test tools and personalization experiments. He worked at Microsoft prior to joining Google.
Jeff Carollo is a software engineer in test at Google and has been responsible for testing Google Voice, Toolbar, Chrome, and Chrome OS. He has consulted with dozens of internal Google development teams helping them improve initial code quality. He converted to a software engineer in 2010 and leads development of Google+ APIs. He also worked at Microsoft prior to joining Google."

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