Software Testing Fundamentals: Methods and Metrics

2017-07-07 02:10:07

Chapter 2: Maintaining Quality Assurance in Today's Software Testing Environment

Figure 2.1: Business-to-business automated procurement system between two companies.
Figure 2.2: The movement of documents through the system.

Figure 7.1: The inventory converted into a dynamic list on the project's Web site. (Powered by Microsoft SharePoint Team Services.)
Figure 7.2: Environment details provided during the second-level interviews.
Figure 7.3: A string Gantt on the wall.

Figure 8.1: Inventory in PowerPoint Outline view.
Figure 8.2: TestersParadise.com Home Page, an example of a high-function test Web site.
Figure 8.3: Inventory from a Web project as an outline in Microsoft Word.
Figure 8.4: The table of contents showing the inventory.
Figure 8.5: The environment catalog sheet from the inventory spreadsheet.
Figure 8.6: The SharePoint Team Services Lists page.
Figure 8.7: PDR view of the inventory in a Team Services list.
Figure 8.8: Environment Catalog view of the inventory in a Team Services list.

Figure 9.1: The spreadsheet inventory showing the "Day in the Life of a Car" test scripts, sorted by test order and priority.
Figure 9.2: The shipping company's inventory showing the test order of the most important tests for the HRIS system.
Figure 9.3: Sample ranking index for Tester's Paradise.

Figure 11.1: Maze with an exit.
Figure 11.2: Maze with island exit. The entrance to this maze cannot be used as an exit.
Figure 11.3: Case statement structure.
Figure 11.4: Five linearly independent paths.
Figure 11.5: A series of required decisions.
Figure 11.6: Paths 1 and 2.
Figure 11.7: Paths 3 through 6.
Figure 11.8: Paths 7 through 12.
Figure 11.9: Paths 13 through 16.
Figure 11.10: Looping structure.
Figure 11.11: Logic flow diagram for Exercise 1.
Figure 11.12: Logic flow diagram for Exercise 2.
Figure 11.13: Logic flow diagram for Exercise 3.
Figure 11.14: Logic flow diagram for Exercise 4.

Figure 12.1: The director's foil.
Figure 12.2: Automatic hyperlink analysis is a part of most Web content creation tools.
Figure 12.3: Automatic Web site Reports view in FrontPage 2002.
Figure 12.4: Web site usage Reports view in FrontPage 2002.
Figure 12.5: A three-dimensional representation of the internal paths in the director's three-bullet foil.
Figure 12.6: The main menu from the second release of the Tester's Paradise application.
Figure 12.7: The Tester's Paradise main menu modeled as a logic flow diagram.
Figure 12.8: The Tester's Paradise Portable System Monitor menu.
Figure 12.9: Logic flow map for the View Portable System Monitor menu option.
Figure 12.10: Logic flow maps for the entire PSM menu.
Figure 12.11: The expanded PSM logic flow map.