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Testing and Quality Assurance for Component-Based Software (Artech House Computing Library)

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This book provides a thorough and detailed discussion of the key differences between testing and QA for 'monolithic' or integrated software, and component-based software engineering.

The distinction is important because while the reason to go with a component-based approach is reusability and leveraging developer efforts across a number of applications or products can also introduce widespread problems across a range of systems. This book shows how to approach testing and QA in a manner that eliminates this problem. The approach itself includes validation methods that need to be rigorously applied, and a detailed quality assurance approach that includes testing, certification and verification after the validation layer is completed.

In addition to a coherent approach, the authors discuss specific methods, automated testing tools, testing frameworks, and specifics about test cycles that apply to component-based software. Overall, this book provides a complete picture of the differences between conventional and component-based software, challenges and solutions to meet those challenges.

While the value of this book will be readily apparent to anyone who is working in a component-based software engineering environment, it is also invaluable to the growing number of project teams and shops developing and implementing web services. There is much commonality shared between component-based software and web services, and the principles and approach given in this book will apply equally to both.

This book covers all the information you need for "testing and quality assurance for componenet-based software". If you are new to software testing or even you have already known some concepts of software testing, I would highly recommend that you read this book or use this book as your reference book.

I have bought several software testing books. This book is really useful and helps me to do my testing research. Hence,I would like to grade this book as a "5 Stars" book.

The first 2/3 of this book addresses the issues and challenges of software component testing. These parts release several effective software component testing techniques to professional and students who have practical or academic purposes in reading this book. I believe the author uses innovative test frameworks and methods in the design of a new testable component, also known as Testable Bean, within a distributed client/server environment.
Besides, I would like to recommend the reference list in the end of each chapter. It provides a wide thinking for each issue.
The later 1/3 of this book mainly discuesses software quality assurance which is the next stage of software testing. It covers a lot for component-based software.

This book helped me gain good knowledge about Software testing, its objectives and various approaches for real time experience. It helped me understand the basic concepts and fundamentals of Software component testability. Through this book, I got a basic idea about the rules and methodologies that are being implemented and followed in current software testing field, as per industry standards.

Black box and White box testing techniques and their relevant issues, challenges and solutions, the various test models, everything is explained very visibly. It serves as a good guide for the beginners as well as the Software professionals of all levels. Information on testing methods like Regression, Integration, Performance and System testing are detailed in a systematic manner.
The information in this text book, taught us to follow the best ways to achieve a well defined test coverage criteria by deriving a definite plan for the project- a plan for managing the schedules, designing and testing the software based components to meet the requirements in the project within a deadline. We, in a team, worked on a Simulated ATM machine, for a practical experience, and the book helped us as a good start. Each chapter has a good introductory part, which gives a clear synopsis about the complete chapter.
The book explains the role of different testing tools, designing and handling the test cases, how to perform component testing quickly and efficiently through automation testing, without manual involvement. Manual testing is time consuming and hence to solve this issue, Automation testing has been introduced lately and this information has been illustrated by the authors very clearly in the book, with suitable examples for the readers understanding.

I personally found this book very helpful and knowledgeable. A Software component's life cycle through the testing phase has been explained well, alongside giving us information about the methodologies to improve the quality of a product, and how to derive a test case to support the functionality; everything is mentioned in this book. My only suggestion is, this book is a complete pack of information on testing of a Software component and its Quality assurance, and hence, from college students to Software professionals, everybody has to experience this book, if they are seriously looking to pick up their career in Testing.

This book gives an organized and detailed description of software quality assurance and should be helpful to anyone who is approaching the subject for the first time.

Authors did a good job of explaining basic concepts of component-based software testing and various validation methods used in quality assurance for software components. This book gives detailed explanation of validation methods (white-box, black-box & test automation tools), issues and challenges of component-based software testing and also explains about integration, regression and performance testing.

I can honestly say that this is the best book on Software Quality Assurance I have ever seen.

This book offers an understanding of component-based software testing. It defines what is component based software. Frankly speaking, until I read this book, I had no idea of component based software development, even though I am a software developer working in JAVA, C++ and C. This book clearly stated the differences between the normal software and component based software. As a student, I had the idea of testing is very easy. This book exposed me to different ways of testing - white-box, black-box, and regression testing and gave a clear picture of testing cycle.

The best part of this book is that it clearly talks about the issues and challenges of the current component based testing. It covers the important concepts like testability and how to construct testable components in a systematic manner.

Over all, this is a very good book for learning Testing techniques for component based softwares.

Either you want to pursue your career in software testing and quality assurance, or you want to improve your software qa skills, this is the best book to start. The book has detailed explanation of all software testing terminologies and methedologies such as black-box, white-box, test automation, integration, and performance testing. Furthermore, it also gives you the complete overviews in software QA, which includes issues and challenges of component-based software.
After reading this book, you will have thorough knowledge of software testing and QA as well as the ability to build a quality assured component-base software.

This book addresses the challenges and issues in quality assurance for both software component and component-based software. It provides a systematic description of the software validation methods: white-box testing, black-box testing and test automation for components; integration, regression and performance testing for component-based software. About the performance testing, the author gave detailed performance testing models and metrics for evaluating component-based software. With the models and metrics, one can easily achieve a systematic solution to performance measurement and evaluation for component-based software.

From this book, I learned not only how to test the software, but also how to build a software component with enhancing the component's testability in mind. It's a fairly good book in software (especially component-based software) quality assurance area.

I did Software quality testing and Software Quality Assurance courses under Dr.Gao Jerry. I bought this book for my course. Now it has become Bible for all my QA needs. I proudly say that I am working as a QA engineer for a leading web based company because of the knowledge I gained through his book and his lecture. I didn't have any knowledge in QA before buying this book.

The chapters in this book describes the issues, challenges and solutions in component-based software testing and quality assurance. I highly recommend this book for Professionals and College graduates who want to pursue their career in Quality Assurance.

Hi All,

I recommend this book for Software QA Testing.

I got two jobs due to this book. Currently I am working in Regression and
Integration Testing department. This book is very helpful in the job
interview also.

This book includes all types of testing.