Software quality and software testing in internet times

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-56333-1MaRDI QIDQ4797879zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 9 March 2003

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56333-1

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to computer science (68-01) Network design and communication in computer systems (68M10)

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The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually. From the introduction: The era of the commercial Internet has brought about new requirements and new challenges for software quality and testing experts. They must cope with new technologies, but more importantly with new project structures where for example the marketing department takes on the role of software buyer, general IT service companies are awarded development outsourcing contracts and IT generalists provide IT infrastructure and the application framework, and untrained customers become users of the software systems. Also, tougher economical conditions and narrow time frames make software development more challenging today. This, the third volume in Springer's series ``software.quality\@xpert.press, is a collection of articles which focuses on these challenges. The authors are well-known experts of national and international reputation. They have described their current practices and experience taken from a variety of IT projects in large organisations. After an introductory overview of today's software development as well as software quality and testing challenges, the first part of this book deals with project management. It highlights practical experience with recent approaches successfully applied using object-oriented development, in most cases Java-based. The second part introduces two extremes, namely extreme programming and its influence on quality and testing as well as the processes designed for a portfolio of Internet applications in a very large IT organisation. Testing from the user's perspective is discussed in the third part. Detailed concepts for testing the relevant business, experiences with end-to-end integration testing and a general procedure for testing usability are introduced. The last article in this part pressents the problems of testing intelligent dialog software, namely bots and avatares. The challenges of technical testing are introduced in the fourth part. These range from the automated testing of legacy back-end systems to security testing, monitoring of website operation and performance testing. Finally, the potential of and current experience with source code-based quality assessments of the architecture, design and the implementation of large object-oriented systems are presented. The final part of the book highlights experiences made in test automation.

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