The Programmer’s Guide to Quality Assurance (pdf)

Description

How software developers approach quality plays a pivotal role in the successful outcome of their projects—yet all too often, quality is left to QA departments. It’s time to change that thinking. In The Programmer’s Guide to Quality Assurance, veteran developer David Pallmann provides clear practical guidance to programmers on taking ownership of software quality and testing their work. Discover how to:

• Participate in the software quality process instead of reacting to it
• Install quality in your designs and code
• Test your work more completely
• Perform functional testing
• Perform hostile testing
• Leverage automated testing
• Analyze and debug problems
• Fix bugs completely
• Understand causes and remedies of many kinds of bugs