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James Whittaker did an experiment where he forced people to come up with a test plan for a product in 10 minutes. The idea was to boil it down to the absolute essentials, without any fluff, but still being useful.
Because of the time constraint, most people just made lists or grids - no paragraphs of text. In his opinion and I agree , this is the most useful level - it is quick to come up with and doesn't need a lot of busy-work filling out sections in a document template, and still it's a useful basis for coming up with test cases. The common theme in all cases was that people based the plan on capabilities that needed testing.
Tools There are other interesting testing tools described in the book too. When testing a browser-based app, like Google Maps, and something went wrong, there was a lot of information to extract and put into the bug report.
For example, what actions lead up to the bug, what version of the software was running, how the bug manifest itself etc. The BITE browser extension keeps track of all the actions the tester made in the application, and supports filing a bug report by automatically including all the relevant information. It also has support for easily marking in a screen shot where the bug appeared. Another interesting tool is Bots.
It involves automatic tests where many different versions of Chrome fetch the top webpages on the web. The resulting HTML is compared and detailed "diff"-reports are produced. Tips There was also a sprinkling of interesting ideas that can definitely be of use in any test organization throughout the book. Here are the ones that stuck in my head: When asking people to estimate a value for something for example the frequency of a certain failure scenario , use an even number of values e.
That way you can't just pick the middle value - you're forced to think about it more carefully. Another example in the same area. If you want people's opinion of how likely a certain failure scenario is, you could just ask them about it. But another technique is to assign a value yourself, and then ask what they think. Then you have given them something to argue against. Often, people have an easier time to say what something isn't, then what it is.
There is also a quote from Larry Page that is referred to several times in the book for example regarding the relatively few testers at Google "Scarcity brings clarity", and later on , Scarcity is the precursor of optimization. Worth thinking about. As well as describing how the testing is done, and which tools are used, there are also a number of interviews with various people in the test organization. Most interviews in the book were interesting to read, but many of them weren't that useful in terms of tips or ideas to use in your own testing.
It is the last and shortest chapter, only 7 pages. In it, James Whittaker shares some profound insights about testing at Google, and testing in general. One of the flaws he sees with testing is that testers are They are not part of the product development team. Instead, they exist in their own organization, and this separation of testers and developers gives the impression that testing is not part of the product; it's somebody else's responsibility. Further, the focus of testing is often the testing activities and artifacts the test cases, the bug reports etc.
But customers don't care about testing per se, they care about products. Finally, a lot of the testing mindset we have today developed in a different era. When you released a product, that was it. There was no easy way to upgrade it, and users had to live with whatever bugs slipped through.
However, these days so much of the software can be fixed and upgraded without a lot of fuss. In this environment, it makes less sense to have testers act as users and try to discover what bugs they might run into. Instead, you can release the software, and see what bugs the actual users encounter.
Then you make sure these bugs are fixed and that the new release is pushed out quickly. So his opinion is that testing should be the responsibility of all the developers working on the product. It should be their responsibility to test the product and to develop the appropriate tools with some exceptions, for instance security testing. Whether you agree or disagree with this, it is definitely food for thought!
Conclusion Initially, when I had just finished reading the book, I felt a little disappointed. It was interesting to read, but there didn't seem to be that much to take away from it and apply to your own testing. Pretty much all of the techniques and tools are tailored for Google and their needs, which is just as it should be.
But that means that they may not be applicable to your own situation. However, as I am going through it again while writing this review, I realize that there are quite a few good ideas in it - they just have to be adapted to your specific situation. So while not directly applicable, the ideas in the book serve as inspirations for how testing can be organized and executed.
Jan 02, Derrick rated it liked it. I learnt about quite a few useful tools, especially pyAuto for driving Chrome automation, as well as Protocol Buffers for creating class definitions and serializing data easily. However, most of the content in this book is more management than technical focused, and would probably benefit someone who is already familiar with the testing scene as it currently is than new readers trying to find ways to improve their software quality.
Dec 19, Zhi Han rated it liked it Shelves: culture. This is not a typical book. It has both good and bad. The good: the level of technical detail, the clarity and the straightforward presentation of the authors. The book painted a picture where SET software engineer in test was the best technical job and TE test engineers are the best generalist job.
At least from a reader's point of view. It certainly is encouraging and enlightening, particularly for google engineers. The bad: 1 the writing style. Oh my god, the authors have almost no writ This is not a typical book. Oh my god, the authors have almost no writing style.
The whole book reads like a training handout, it has verbatim interviews interspersed in the chapters. Long code segments interspersed with cultural discussions.
Verbatim copies of blog posts. There is no consistent flow of thoughts. The book seriously lack readability improvement. All three authors have left Google after this book was published. I cannot help but asking, does the vision stand good with time? Sep 30, Matt Diephouse rated it liked it. This was an odd book. It's really 3 things: an internal training manual, a recruiting tool, and an external guide to Google's testing practices.
The first two really got in the way of what would have otherwise been a very interesting book. Jan 26, Nick Black rated it really liked it Shelves: pimpin-aint-easy-but-computers-are. The best book on testing or "facilitating engineering productivity", as it's known within the book and among the google SETs software engineers in testing I've ever read, though most of this will be old hat to anyone who's digested the lessons of test-driven development.
View 2 comments. Feb 24, David rated it really liked it Shelves: As a budding Quality Assurance Analyst at a relatively small software company, I decided to give this book a read to get an understanding of how a big company like Google approaches software testing.
I found it to full of extremely helpful information and it opened my eyes to how the rest of the tech industry approaches software testing.
It goes into detail about how Google ensures that its product line is of the highest quality, featuring the various types of positions in the "Engineering Produ As a budding Quality Assurance Analyst at a relatively small software company, I decided to give this book a read to get an understanding of how a big company like Google approaches software testing.
It goes into detail about how Google ensures that its product line is of the highest quality, featuring the various types of positions in the "Engineering Productivity" department at Google: the Software Engineer in Test, the Test Engineer, and the Test Engineering Manager.
The skills and responsibilities for each position is fleshed out in great detail and this book did an excellent job of describing Google's software testing practices in an easy to understand manner. If you're in software testing and are curious about this topic, you won't be disappointed. Nov 15, Stanislav Mekhonoshin rated it liked it. If you are waiting for tricky testing details, then this book it not what you want. It is mostly about high-level abstract things, it also contains lots of interviews with Google's top-managers somehow related to testing.
So get ready to learn how Google interviews QAs and how they assign them to projects. Jan 06, Sherilyn rated it really liked it. How does Google test software? I like the philosophy. May 10, Sergey Kochergan rated it it was amazing. Must read for everyone whose work related to software testing and quality assurance. I am sort of confused with this book. Of course we should consider the book is dated to some extend, so this is not a clear representation of what Google does now in terms of testing.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that they don't test software as a typical large corp, they a lot of flexibility and fresh ideas. There were many good ideas and observations related to, for ex. Yet, the book says very little of "how" google performs testing, it's more focused on what practices they do, or what artifacts they produce, or how they split automation effort, which is good but in itself is not testing, it is a support activity arround testing.
You will find very little examples of what Google considers excellent testing and how they perform it and it's mainly in the interviews part and in the appendecies. The conclusion of the book was the part that really disappointed me. In essence, they created this culture of heavy reliance to formally document everything with test cases which in fact was approach from the 80s that didn't work even back then and they were "surprised" that it led to testing getting too focused on artifacts and less focused on finding real life bugs.
The "solution" that the autors offer is - ditch testers, move to automation, outsource testing to clients and crowd testing. Well this is nor logical, nor meaningful solution of the problem. Also, in many occasions in the book they mentioned exploratory testing as it was some magical solution to testing, but what they mean insteaed is they are using James Whittaker's rendering of it, which in fact, although interesting, has nothing to do with exploratory testing as it was meant by its creator or the group that studied it, developped it and knows it inside-out.
Here it's practically Whittaker's "sitting on the toilet, what does that mean to me" definition of exploratory testing, and again this is not looked into great perspective. Aug 28, Simmoril rated it liked it. In my day-to-day job as a software engineer I constantly encounter new and interesting problems in the realm of testing software. So when I found How Google Tests Software, I was very excited to find out what techniques Google employs to tackle some of these thornier problems at scale.
The opening chapters of the book do a really great job of describing the ethos of testing at Google, and very clearly defining what their goals are and how each of their roles and tools will contribute to that over In my day-to-day job as a software engineer I constantly encounter new and interesting problems in the realm of testing software.
The opening chapters of the book do a really great job of describing the ethos of testing at Google, and very clearly defining what their goals are and how each of their roles and tools will contribute to that overall goal. Reading through these chapters I found myself chomping at the bit to find the nuggets of wisdom that I could apply in my own work. However, past the opening chapters, for me the book really started to wane in terms of technical details, and I found myself working harder and harder to find the lessons that I could take away.
While I appreciated the author's descriptions of the tools that Google uses internally, the overviews weren't enough for me to determine exactly what about the tools solved their testing problems, and it wasn't enough to really understand how to build a similar infrastructure at my company.
The latter half of the book focused heavily on interview transcripts with testing leaders at Google. While I did appreciate their war stories and takeaways, I felt the interviews didn't have quite enough useful information to justify the amount of space that they took up in the book. Even the last chapter felt like more of an anti-climax rather than a solid wrap-up of the book as a whole.
Overall, I thought the book had a lot of potential, but the pacing issues with the size of each chapter and the dearth of useful technical details really took a lot of the wind out of its sails. Jan 23, Vinit rated it really liked it Shelves: engineering , own. A book that details how the software giant tests their products at huge scale. It explains what challenges does Google face for their products and features which are running at huge scale and how their test teams overcome them with collaboration with the development team.
This book explains each role in A book that details how the software giant tests their products at huge scale. This book explains each role in detail and the career path associated with the role.
It also explains how test engineers are hired at Google and what qualities in an engineer makes them a good Googler vs not. The reader can learn about how engineers in different role come together to test and release a quality product from the organization: Google.
A nice read for test engineers who aspire to join Google and even for who do not want to join Google but understand how to test products which are huge in scale Google level scale. Oct 05, Christoph Kappel rated it liked it Shelves: , l-english , c-testing.
Hm well, this is a bit tricky to rate and to review. Actually the whole book is more or less some kind of manual for the folks of google how to use their tools and how their process actually works out. The note, that this book is something every new Googler Noogler has to read should have raised some alarms, but still it is interesting how testers have a different role their, than I am used to from other companies and projects.
This way there are real experts that combine both roles and are available for projects that really need a helping hand. Since I am always in in gamification, the testing game with the rewards is just awesome. This book provides interesting views into how an organization Google worked to introduce more quality into their software development efforts. I particularly enjoyed the interviews with the team tasked with rolling out a new approach to testing within the organization.
Tasking a small group of experts to drive a new program new mindset, new approaches into an organization is tough. And, getting exposure to how other's have faired is valuable.
Speaking of mindsets, in the spirit of "travellin This book provides interesting views into how an organization Google worked to introduce more quality into their software development efforts. Speaking of mindsets, in the spirit of "travelling light" and "delivering value", I also enjoyed the coverage of the Attribute, Component, Capability approach to figuring out and communicating test plans.
Jan 12, Dan Stewart rated it it was amazing. I was really impressed by the responsibility that Google places on its software engineers for quality. Testing and quality belong to the entire team and not just a few people with the word Quality in their job title. The end of the book was a surprise. It made me envision a future where quality was just built into the framework for developing applications and not something bolted on at the end.
The tools are getting better and the practices are improving to the level that testers can focus on the I was really impressed by the responsibility that Google places on its software engineers for quality. The tools are getting better and the practices are improving to the level that testers can focus on the user experience and not basic correctness. Aug 24, Henk Devos rated it liked it. This book is more than 5 years old, and things move fast at a company like Google, so it's a bit outdated already.
But looking beyond that, there are moments when teh book gives great insights on how google is doing certain things, and times when you say: I wish we could do the same! So some good information, but don't expect too much from it. It"'s a rather quick read, and half of the book is interviews with people working at google.
Oct 29, Matthew rated it liked it Shelves: business , tech. This is really a four-star book, but I'm taking off one star because one chapter is more than a hundred pages long, I didn't like the page formatting, and there were more typos than I would like. It's a pretty interesting book, great to see how Google does things. As I was reading I found myself mentally comparing my current work environment to the one described in the book and thinking about what we could do to improve our software development process.
Jun 15, Toni Tassani rated it it was ok Shelves: safari. Interesting view on how Google did their testing back i
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