Automated Web Testing Toolkit: Expert Methods for Testing and Managing Web Applications [Paperback]

Diane Stottlemyer (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471414352 | ISBN-13: 978-0471414353 | Publication Date: July 3, 2001

Despite the potentially enormous cost to organizations from clunky Web sites, Web testing is often an overlooked aspect of the development process. Expert tester Diane Stottlemeyer provides developers with all the tools and templates they need to put a testing plan into motion. Focusing exclusively on testing in a Web environment, Stottlemeyer explains how to build and perform full-functionality Web testing, including code enhancement for adding features to existing applications and regression testing. Readers will get complete, step-by-step guidance on preparing, running, and analyzing tests on the Web, including how to test with different languages and databases, and how to test on different platforms and servers, including Linux.

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"Overall, this book deserves full marks for content and value for money." (Computer Bulletin, November 2001)

From the Back Cover

All the tools, templates, and techniques you need to execute a testing plan on different platforms and servers

Automated Web Testing Toolkit

Due to deadline constraints and rapidly evolving technologies, Web testing is often an overlooked aspect of development. Companies risk losing hundreds of thousands--even millions--of dollars without a secure testing process in place. As online businesses continue to grow, a lack of testing can lead to skyrocketing costs, interrupted workflow, and a loss of customers, and may ultimately mar a company's reputation. This critical book focuses exclusively on software testing in a Web environment and provides a comprehensive working resource for developers, programmers, software engineers, and Webmasters responsible for developing Web applications.

Offering a clear description of the technical aspects of developing and testing code, this book also illustrates how to manage a software project from inception to full execution and how to perform follow-up enhancements. Expert Diane Stottlemyer presents a reliable way to build and perform full-functionality Web testing and explains the code enhancements for adding features to existing applications and regression testing.

Providing essential and informative insights to Web testing, the material covers:
* Processes, methodology, and security measures
* Web site and risk management
* How to test in different languages (XML, HTML, Java, VBScript, etc.) and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.)
* Preparing the environment for testing
* Capacity and regression testing
* Running tests, analyzing the results, and documentation

The CD-ROM includes customizable templates, sample test plans, cases, scripts and scenarios, a resource listing with links, and access to sample tools.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (July 3, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471414352
• ISBN-13: 978-0471414353
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,290,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Title Is Deceiving, August 29, 2001

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"vttester" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Automated Web Testing Toolkit: Expert Methods for Testing and Managing Web Applications (Paperback)

This book is a good addition to any manager's library. It goes through the steps it takes to go through a web project. It is a good toolkit since it gives the reader a list of tools for many types of web testing.
It also talks about Business Requirements and types of testing that can be done on web applications.
As a novice tester the book may not answer all your questions but for testers who are looking for quick answers and want to reserach tools this is a must buy.
The CD also offers several templates for the Test Process that I found useful.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars obsolete and dangerously misleading, September 6, 2003

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Frank Carver - See all my reviews

This review is from: Automated Web Testing Toolkit: Expert Methods for Testing and Managing Web Applications (Paperback)

I tried real hard to find something to like about this book. I was disappointed. Testing of web sites and web applications is an area which desperately needs some good books, but this is not one of them.

The author seems to have cobbled this book together from some old course notes, inserted the word "web" here and there and put some obviously obsolete material in the past tense. It baldly assumes a heavyweight and ill-considered development process, and makes unsubstantiated statements about an unrepresentative selection of software packages. Automated testing is mentioned only in passing, between superficial descriptions of project- and risk- management. Virtually no mention is made of the things which make web applications hard to test - browser differences, massive concurrency, stateless protocols, network issues ...

It lacks the depth for a developer or tester, but I can't even recommend this book as a management overview - so much of the content is either dangerously misleading, obsolete, or just plain wrong.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Should be named "NOT Automated Web Testing", January 16, 2003

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TRose (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Automated Web Testing Toolkit: Expert Methods for Testing and Managing Web Applications (Paperback)

Very misleading title. I bought the book thinking it would discuss tools for automated web testing (gee, I got that idea from the title somehow); but the book is only about basic procedures in general testing. "Testing Computer Software" and "Testing Web Applications" by Cem Kaner, et al. had better information on basic testing procedures AND automated testing. I really wanted the authors to give me my money back since the book is NOT about test automation. And the "load testing for e-confidence" pdf on the CD is available FREE OF CHARGE from Segue's web site.