Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability (Paperback)

by Elfriede Dustin (Author), Jeff Rashka (Author), Douglas McDiarmid (Author)

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"...an excellent guide to implementing testing strategies that will results in web sites that work while speeding time-to-market." -- Diane Hagglund, Mercury Interactive

Product Description
Enterprise Web developers are trapped between a rock and a hard place: they're under tremendous pressure to get to market fast -- but if they deploy systems of poor quality, they will drive away customers -- losing revenue and market share for years to come. Quality Web Systems gives software professionals start-to-finish resources for enhancing quality and accelerating development at the same time. Quality Web Systems identifies the key obstacles to delivering Web systems that deliver promised levels of performance, security, and usability -- and proven solutions. Coverage includes: identifying key success criteria for Web development; specifying Web system functionality through RSI (Requirement-Service-Interface) use cases; creating test cases; checking browser and platform compatibility; identifying and testing for security vulnerabilities; planning and evaluating ease-of-use; and meeting specified performance and scalability requirements.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (September 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201719363
• ISBN-13: 978-0201719369
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #452,306 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on various quality topics, November 19, 2001

By	Jeff Nyman (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This book was a joy to read. It gives a great overview of quality issues within "Web systems" - meaning Web applications and architectures. The book balances a too-specific look with a too-general look and succeeds quite well in a balanced treatment that will make the whole worth the attention of any quality assurance or quality tester professional in the Information Technology industry.

In particular, the second chapter, on the RSI Approach, is a nice addition as this is something that most practitioners of quality subjects will not find elsewhere and the general subject matter is generally that which is avoided in books of this type. Another topic often avoided in these books is that of usability and accessibility concerns and yet these are covered here in good detail chapter six.

In general, I think the book offered a great amount of detail just where it was needed and gave a lot of "mini best-practices" in each chapter with the use of bulleted lists to highlight specific points. The detail of the book extends to various topics, like performance, compatibility, usability, and security - all topics that are of high concern in the current world of making qualitly Web systems that customers and user respond to. The appendices in the book are also excellent. The "Test Tool Evaluations" section will be a welcome addition to those who wish there are more concise evaluation forms for automated tool solutions.

I highly recommend this book to quality assurance/testing professionals, quality assurance managers, and even those who work more in the project management and development spheres. Those latter will get benefit from the book because the book manages to highlight topics of concern to both groups and also gives them insight into the quality aspects of the projects and products that are developed within an organization.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and relevant, August 30, 2001

By	Ms. Mary R. Sweeney "M. R. Sweeney 'book lover" (Issaquah, WA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Quality Web Systems is another thorough and complete book by the same team who wrote Automated Software Testing. I am finding the same quality and insight in this book. Web Systems testing is THE critical testing area in software quality assurance today. I appreciate the thoughtful and practical approach this text takes. I found the sections on Usability Test Strategies and the test tool evaluation guide particularly relevant to my situation. I think this is a book every tester should have. I highly recommend it.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Once again another blockbuster!, September 25, 2001

By	Amjad Alhait "AJ" (Campbell, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is one of the best quality assurance books in a while... Thinner than Automated Software Testing, but as informative! If you are doing any kind of web testing, this one's a must have for your library. Talks about all aspects of software testing on the web. I give it 5 stars hands down!