Team Guide to Software Testability
Ash Winter and Rob Meaney
Learn practical insights on how testability can help bring teams together to observe, control and understand the systems they build. Enabling them to better meet customer needs, achieve a transparent level of quality and predictability of delivery.
Team Guide to Software Testability is the third guidebook in the new collection from Skelton Thatcher Publications. A practical guide to how testability can help bring teams together to observe, control and understand the systems they build. Enabling them to better meet customer needs, achieve a transparent level of quality and predictability of delivery.
Audience
Anyone working on software or influencing how software is built, tested, deployed: developers, testers, business analysts, ops engineer, SRE, product manager, Head of Technology.
Details
Publication date: November 2021
Pages: 178
Formats: Leanpub (PDF, Mobi, ePub), print
Twitter: @TestabilityBook
The Team Guide series
The Team Guide books are written and curated by experienced software practitioners and emphasise the need for collaboration and learning, with the team at the centre. The books focus on specific techniques and approaches that have been proven to work well for teams building software systems, and contain several case studies from people in the field, bringing to life the concepts in real situations.
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Praise for Team Guide to Testability
"Finally, practical exercises with real-life examples and effective visual models so that your team can make real improvements to your product's testability. We've needed this book for decades. Get it today, dive into any chapter that seems to relate to your team's needs, and start improving one small step at a time."
-- Lisa Crispin, Quality Owner at OutSystems and co-author of 'Agile Testing'
"Ash and Rob's vast experience shines through in this fantastic book. Packed with revealing activities, you'll come away with a great set of tools to improve testability throughout your company. I love that the authors demonstrate the benefits to individual roles providing the reader with a "why" quality is a team responsibility."
-- Christopher Chant, Head of Production at Shelby Finance Limited
"A must-read for anybody that wants to create quality software. It covers all aspects of testability and gives readers everything they need to become testability-advocates themselves."
-- Joost van Wollingen, Head of Test Engineering at iptiQ
"This book does an amazing job at describing testability. The practical exercises allow you to confidently explore testability concepts with your team. A must read for anyone involved in software development!"
-- Ali Hill, Consultant at ECS Digital
"This is a great book! It engages the entire team on a path to increased testability in the systems and applications that they release. Testability is something that the entire team needs to own. Rob and Ash have set a path for an all-team engaged approach with real-world examples and actionable content."
-- Dave Harrison, Software Testing Practice Lead at Fiserv
"Beside insightful content I really like all the exercises that allow teams to put in practice the knowledge captured and shared in the book. So I can learn not just the theory but also put it into practice in a guided way!"
-- Urbano Freitas, Professional Services DevOps Head of Practice at OutSystems
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