ISBN: 9780735624252
Authors: Alan Page, Ken Johnston and Bj Rollison
The book provides an interesting vantage point on Microsoft's software development and testing methodologies. In addition to providing insightful understanding of the Testing methods and techniques; it throws light into the tools and practices which helps worlds one of the largest software engineering company to deal with the challenges of the quality across 100+ software product groups.
Some interesting facets were a story on how Microsoft stress tested the 'USB array' for the Windows 200 launch and then insightful story on the Halo 2 beta trials and how instrumentation helped calibrating the gamer experience appropriately.
Purely from a test technique point of view I thought the Equivalence Class Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis gave a well explained example of how to conduct a good analysis and thus a good test design.
Even if you are familiar with Test techniques and testing practices its still useful for a good quick read to get a view on challenges at Microsoft.
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