Synopses & Reviews
The goal of Visual Basic for Testers is to teach you how to use Visual Basic to increase your level of sophistication as a tester. You'll learn how to use VB to write an automated testing project and what to look for in a well-written VB program. Author Mary Sweeney will help you gain the experience necessary both to use VB to support an automated text project and to text a commercial application written in VB.
Since testers often want to move to development tracks, Sweeney also presents information on programming and the issues involved in maintenance and debugging. What you?ll learn Who this book is for
Visual Basic for Testers is easy to read and understand, and is not intended to be a high-level technical reference. Rather, it is a practical guide with many examples provided by real testers with real-world experience in writing VB test code. It is useful for those considering a career in testing and wondering just what the difference is between writing code for testing and writing code for software development.
Synopsis
Software testing is a skill. Experience, training, self-study, and a good intuition are what make a good software test engineer. Most test engineers I know are con tinually striving to learn more about technology. A test engineer is expected to know at least a little about practically everything-from operating systems to networks to databases-in order to be able to find bugs and report them articu lately. What I always say to new testers is that this is a great profession for those of us who love to learn continuously. It's like you've never left college-you must study constantly. (Of course, that also makes it a good place to be if you like to feel constantly inadequate You can never know enough. ) So, this book is for that self-motivated test engineer who is intent on continually upgrading his or her knowledge and now wants to learn more about automated software testing. This book is also for you test leads and managers who want to know what Visual Basic can do for your test project. A not -so-well-kept secret of automated software testing is that the major tools available commercially don't do every thing you need them to do, in spite of their advertisements. It's probably unrealistic to expect any tool to be able to fully support the automated testing required for so many diverse applications."
Synopsis
- There are no other books on the market that teach Visual Basic from the perspective of a software tester. - There are no other books on the market that teach the programming concepts necessary to successfully write automated test code. - This book is easy to read and understand, and isn't intended to be a high-level technical reference. Rather, it's a practical guide with many examples provided by real testers.