How to Test a Time Machine: The practical guide to automation and testing

Rev up your career with powerful project enhancements using this comprehensive guide to test architectures and methodologies applicable to every area of testing

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Key Features

• Explore the full test architecture spectrum
• Discover a range of challenging automation applications with real-world scenarios
• Learn with easy-to-follow start-up examples including DevOps for testing, AI, XR, and cloud

Book Description

From simple websites to complex applications, delivering quality is crucial for achieving customer satisfaction. How to Test a Time Machine provides step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples to show you how you can leverage your company's test architecture from different points in the development life cycle.

You'll begin by determining the most effective system for measuring and improving the delivery of quality applications for your company, and then learn about the test pyramid as you explore it in an innovative way. You'll also cover other testing topics, including cloud, AI, and VR for testing.

Complete with techniques, patterns, tools, and exercises, this book will help you enhance your understanding of the testing process. Regardless of your current role within development, you can use this book as a guide to learn all about test architecture and automation and become an expert and advocate for quality assurance.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to deliver high-quality applications by implementing the best practices and testing methodologies included in the book.

What you will learn

• Identify quality maturity levels and processes to step up your product quality
• Develop the ability to think outside the box when testing methodologies
• Examine the various types of tests and their applications from an unconventional perspective
• Understand how to apply different technologies to the testing process
• Practice and polish your testing skills with practical code exercises
• Expedite your career growth with quality assurance

Who this book is for

This book is for test owners, developers, managers, manual QAs, SDETS, team leads, and systems engineers who wish to get started or improve the current QA systems. Test owners looking for inspiration and out-of-the-box solutions for challenging issues will also find this book useful.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction – Finding 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. Traveling Across Realities
11. How to Test a Time Machine (and Other Hard-to-Test Applications)
12. Taking Your Testing to the Next Level
13. Appendix – Self-Assessment

Noemí Ferrera is a self-taught programmer and wrote her first comprehensive program at the age of nine. When she grew up, she proceeded to achieve a degree in computer science specializing in hardware in Spain, a bachelor's degree in software engineering in Ireland, and a master's degree in computer science in Spain. She is an international speaker and participates in testing community conferences (such as Selenium, Appium, and Automation guilds) and engages with the community through Slack channels, Twitter, and her blog. In the 2020 Test Guilds publication, she was named as one of the top 28 test engineers to follow, as well as one of the top 33 test automation leaders to follow in the 2019 Tech Beacon and as one of the 100 women in tech to follow and learn from by agiletestindays in 2023.