ISBN 1-58053-570-4
Paul Gerrard and Neil Thompson
430 pages.
Copyright 2002.






Description

This hands-on guide for business, project and test managers and test practitioners presents an effective approach for using risk to construct test strategies for e-business systems. Using an easily-learned risk-analysis technique, it teaches you how to use risk to select and prioritize test methods for e-business projects. This innovative resource shows you how to select test techniques to address business risks and integrate them into a coherent test process.

The book presents twenty-four test techniques that address failure modes found in web applications. Grouped into seven categories, they are organized to make test strategy development easy. Each chapter has a comprehensive list of references to papers, books and web resources. The book provides you with guidelines for post-deployment monitoring of availability, performance, security and site integrity. It includes an overview of eight most important tool types with guidelines for selection and implementation. What's more, you get discussions and recommendations on freeware, shareware and propriety tools.

The book is rounded off with guidelines to making E-Business testing happen. Based on best practices, experience in real projects and ample pragmatism, these guidelines set out the major challenges to test managers wishing to implement agile approaches to test strategy. Appendices present a simple Master Test Planning Process manual and an example risk analysis.

Table of Contents

Part 1, Risk Based Testing: Introduction to Risk Based Testing. Risk-Management and Testing, Risk: The New Language for E-Business Testing, Risk-Based Test Strategy.

Part 2, Test Strategy: E-Business Risks and Test Strategy, Types of Web Failures, E-Business Test Strategy, From Risk Analysis to a Test Process.

Part 3, E-Business Test Techniques

· Introduction and Overview

· Static Testing: Content checking; HTML validation; browser syntax compatibility.

· Test Browsing: Link checking; object load and timing; transaction verification.

· Functional Testing: Browser page testing; server-based component testing; transaction link testing; application system testing; context testing; internationalization; configuration testing.

· Service Testing: Performance and stress testing; reliability/resilience testing; service management testing.

· Usability: Usability inspection; usability testing.

· Security: Network scanning and audit; operating system scanning and audit; application penetration test.

· Large Scale Integration: External links/legacy systems integration; end-to-end functionality.

· Post-Deployment Monitoring: Why?; what can be monitored?

· Tools for E-Business Testing: Web testing tools; tool sources; web testing using home-brew tools.

Part 4, Making it Happen: Themes; Variations; Discords and Resolutions.

Part 5 Appendices: Sample Master Test Planning Process, Sample Risk Analysis and Test Process.

Author Bio

Paul Gerrard is Technical Director of Systeme Evolutif Limited, London. He received his M.A. in engineering science from Oxford University and MSc. and DIC in structural engineering from Imperial College, London University.

Neil Thompson is director of Thompson Information Systems Consulting Limited, Surrey, England. He received his B.A. in natural sciences and MA from Cambridge University.