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The Web Testing Companion: The Insider's Guide to Efficient and Effective Tests 1st Edition

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 600 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 2, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471430218
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471430216
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent intro and reference to beginner/imtermediate QA.
By Stephen E. Donner on June 5, 2003
Format: Paperback
As a Software QA Engineer with only 2 years experience (who's just recently been transitioned into web-based application testing from a web-client background) and, might I add, an employee of the largest competitor to Lydia's parent company, I was pleasantly surprised that she was non-biased and thorough in her comparison of different browsers (though a tad brief in other areas).

Okay, enough with the background. Things this book does effectively; begins to get you thinking about security testcases (via malformed CGI/http requests, extended-char inputs, etc), but also covers a great deal broadly on automation, performance, static/dynamic HTML, and a few scattered topics such as form controls. She does seem to go overboard on character sets (both in security sections and in testing sections), though perhaps my experience in the 'real-world' at my company hasn't touched on this enough, I don't know. She does great on helping you formulate the browser matrixes, with all their resolution types, and she even differentiates between screen resolution and what she calls 'canvas size' (I refer to this as the viewport, but they're identical). This book is a fabulous introduction to the metholodies, and what a beginner or intermediate tester would expect to find in the real world. Bug cycles, templates, project cycles, roles, best practices, scheduling, bug severities and the like are all described in sufficient detail.

Now for the single disappointment: her Test Planning and Design chapter is shy of 20 pages. This may or may not sound comprehensive enough, but to me it was terribly under-developed. She does break this chapter down and describe the different kinds of testcases/plans, but doesn't really show any templates, which I was expecting.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGood Reference
By rtroxel on November 19, 2005
Format: Paperback
The Web Testing Companion is a manual written for both beginners and experienced web designers, and the author herself is a testing director at Microsoft. If you've had a few years' experience as a designer, developer or webmaster, then the material is not new to you; i.e., optimizing bandwidth, etc.

Obviously, this is not the kind of book you read straight through from beginning to end, but rather a handbook that you can refer to as problems arise. For the most part, the book succeeds as that, and Ms. Ash has divided the book into four general sections: non-technical issues, technical issues, general advice for testers, and finally an excellent set of appendices on various aspects of Web testing.

I'm sure we all can recall incidents of working with defective software that nobody apparently had tested for bugs, sloppy coding, or slow operating time. This was because there was probably a deadline for the software release time, and the developer concluded that hiring testers would be an extra expense.

Non-Technical Issues:

The first four chapters deal with non-technical issues, mostly related to the planning of the application.

Web site planning can involve a number for goals; for example, which is most important: minimal defects or time-to-market? Developing a medical web application to assist in diagnosing illnesses is different from developing an application that will be used to solicit funds. The medical app could be providing life-or-death information, whereas the solicitation site could need high visual appeal. In other words, the app must meet the customer's requirements and expectations, not yours.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn excellent web testing reference
By A Customer on January 23, 2004
Format: Paperback
I came across this book in the bookstore and was so impressed I dropped the $$$ on it there. I have referred to it at least weekly for test cases. It has more than paid for the purchase price through what it has done to make my job easier. Few books touch on security or performance in a practical manner, but this one digs right in and actually has information you can apply immediately to your app. I can see where the other reviewer might have been frustrated in that it didn't tell him how to write web applications. It is purely about testing them and doesn't get hung up walking you through any specific technologies. It concentrates on the information you need to test your app.
Don't take my word for it. Stickyminds gave it 4 stars. ...
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent Web QA resource
By Jack D. Herrington on December 28, 2004
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This is the best book I have ever seen on the testing web applications. It covers everything from unicode to Javascript, from security to the validity of the HTML. It teaches through an understanding of the technology, then covers ways to stress the technology to look for bugs. The sections on character encodings and performance testing are particularly well done. This is a must have book for QA professionals tasked with testing a web application.
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