How Google Tests Software

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 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!

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 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!

Hundreds of millions of lines of code distributed across billions of source files. Billions of build actions prompting millions of automated tests daily. Hundreds of thousands of browser instances daily. Apps released at a continuous pace. Ladies and gents, it doesn't get more difficult than this (at least not by much). About the Authors James 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. Jason is a Test Engineer at Google and has been test lead for Google Desktop, Chrome, and Chrome OS and development lead for an array of open source test tools. He worked at Microsoft prior to joining Google. Jeff is a Software Engineer in Test and has focused on developer tools for code presubnnit testing. He has consulted with dozens of internal Google development teams helping them improve initial code quality. He converted to Software Engineer in 2010 and leads development of Google+ APIs. "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!"--From Amazon.com Introduction to Google software testing -- The software engineer in test -- The test engineer -- The test engineering manager -- Improving how Google tests software