Software Testing for Managers: An Introduction to Strategies, Technologies, and Best Practices

Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Introduction
Chapter 1: Test Awareness
	1.1 The Software Engineer
	1.2 Summary
Chapter 2: Test-Driven Development vs. Test During Development
	2.1 Testing Dogma vs. Practicality
	2.2 Specification
	2.3 Planning
	2.4 Development
	2.5 Staging: Internal
	2.6 Staging: External
	2.7 Production
	2.8 Retrospective
	2.9 Summary
Chapter 3: Quality and Assurance
	3.1 What Does Quality Mean to You?
	3.2 Standards: You Should Have Some
	3.3 Standards: Your Users
	3.4 Standards: The Government
		3.4.1 HIPAA
		3.4.2 GDPR/CCPA
		3.4.3 PCI DSS
		3.4.4 Fair Credit Reporting Act
		3.4.5 Accessibility
	3.5 Assuring Yourself
	3.6 Business Domain Experts
	3.7 New Bugs and Regressions
	3.8 Location, Location, Location
	3.9 User Acceptance Testing
	3.10 Dashboards and Reports
	3.11 Summary
Chapter 4: Specification
	4.1 Roadmaps, Stories, and Behavior
	4.2 Specification by Example: Book Reference and Summary
	4.3 Unknown Unknowns: Unspecified System Behaviors Are Not Testable
	4.4 Refactoring
	4.5 Upgrades
	4.6 Given, When, Then
	4.7 Summary
Chapter 5: Automation Reuse
	5.1 Be Less Assertive
		5.1.1 Hard vs. Soft Assertions
		5.1.2 Unit Tests
	5.2 Shift Left: Reuse Tests Every Step of the Lifecycle
	5.3 Reuse Tests Everywhere
	5.4 Fixtures, Personas, and Test Data
		5.4.1 Personas
		5.4.2 Fixtures
		5.4.3 Test Data as a Service
	5.5 End-to-End Testing and Workflows
	5.6 Specification Reuse
	5.7 Image Comparison Testing
	5.8 Summary
Chapter 6: Coverage
	6.1 The Myth of Code Coverage
	6.2 Test Coverage
	6.3 Only Broken Tests Find Bugs
	6.4 Tests That Never Break
	6.5 Skip, Ignore, and Pay Attention
	6.6 A Better Metric: ERA Model
		6.6.1 Score
		6.6.2 Nodes vs. Versions
		6.6.3 Risk
		6.6.4 Risk Factors
		6.6.5 How To
		6.6.6 Don’t Forget
	6.7 Summary
Chapter 7: Security
	7.1 Low Hanging Fruit: Static Code Analysis
	7.2 Check the Manifest: Software Composition Analysis
	7.3 You Need Help: Auditing Services
	7.4 Once Again, the Government: Compliance and Data Breach
	7.5 Data Storage
	7.6 Data Transport
	7.7 Access: Principle of Least Privilege
	7.8 Secure Coding Practices
	7.9 Security Is Social: Team Education
		7.9.1 Make a Plan
	7.10 Summary
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Chapter 9: Pitfalls
	9.1 Coverage*
	9.2 100% Code Coverage*
	9.3 Tests That Never Fail
	9.4 Automation Only*
	9.5 100% Automation
	9.6 Screenshots
	9.7 Xpath vs. CSS Selectors
	9.8 Fuzzing*
	9.9 Dashboards and Report Data Views*
	9.10 Testing Without Specification