Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Mobile and Internet-Based Systems, Second Edition
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Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Mobile and Internet-Based Systems, Second Edition
Hung Q. Nguyen , Bob Johnson , Michael Hackett , and Robert Johnson
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* Includes updates to material on testing Web applications.
* Contains new coverage of testing for wireless applications.
* From the coauthor of the bestselling testing book of all time.
* Each test type is backed up with a testing example and error examples.

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4 out of 5 stars The Search inside this book is superb handy.......2007-06-06

I borrowed this book's first version and liked it very much. Since I can't find the first version anywhere, I have to buy this new version. I wanted to buy at Amazon in order to save my time driving to bookstore, plus it is cheaper here. I was worried if this book has the sections I need which were in first version. This --Search inside this book-- is superb!! At first, I did not realize it has the whole "contents" list. Then I realized if I click on "next", it will show you the complete "contents". I saw the chapter that I need and ready to buy it. Very happy with this feature--Search inside this book. There is no doubt this book is superb for QA engineer.

4 out of 5 stars Good book to get started.......2005-11-23

I am a software developer that had to create an automated performance web testing system. This book (along with two others) provided my with a good overview on best practices for creating my "Internet Macros" for performance web testing.

5 out of 5 stars Testing Applications on the Web.......2004-10-30

Great book - everything you need to know about web testing

5 out of 5 stars Major rewrite of the best web testing book.......2004-06-20

This is more than a minor update of the first edition of this highly regarded book - it's a major rewrite with added material on mobile web testing.

As in the earlier book, this one clearly shows the differences between traditional testing and web testing, which will provide QA professionals who are moving from older environments into web-based systems an orientation and direction. For new QA professionals the chapters on software testing basics, networking and web application components provide a solid foundation. The chapter on mobile web application platforms is unique to this book, and adds true value. Other core material includes test planning, and a sample application and test plan to add realistic scenarios to the material.

Web-specific test advice encompasses UI, functional, server-side, database, help, installation, compatibility, security and performance testing. These cover all facets of the test process and associated procedures in a web-centric environment. Additional chapters include using test scripts, testing mobile web applications, and web testing tools.

While the core content is on the mark and accurate, the appendices are as invaluable. These include a test plan template, weekly status report template, error analysis checklist (with error examples), UI test-case design guidelines (common keyboard navigation/shortcut matrix and mouse action matrix web), test-case design guideline: input boundary and validation matrix, display compatibility test matrix, and browser/OS configuration matrix.

If you test web systems this is the most complete book you can read, and it is destined to attain the same 'classic' status as the first edition.
Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Internet-Based Systems
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Written by a true authority in the field, Hung Q. Nguyen's Testing Applications on the Web is a nicely comprehensive guide to virtually every conceivable aspect of software testing. It's filled with must-have background information for any test engineer or manager who's testing thin-client systems.

Gray-box testing--a new means to test complex, distributed systems based on server-side components and browser-based clients--is the focus of the book. While, in the past, testers might have ignored certain aspects of stand-alone desktop software, today's Web-based software requires a thorough knowledge of every aspect of multitiered Web applications. To this end, the book surveys the basics of essential computing topics like thin-client computer architectures, networking (including a comprehensive introduction to TCP/IP and related standards), databases, and SQL.

This book also outlines the state of the art in software testing. Notable sections include a short guide to no fewer than 24 distinct types of software tests, how to test browser-based user interfaces effectively, and a thorough guide to Web-performance testing. The general discussion of testing methodology is anchored by a case study on actual test documents and tests for a Web-based software application (a tool for tracking software defects). The text closes with a survey of today's testing tools, and blank templates for creating your own test plans in the field.

With its expert's-eye view of what's involved in software testing, bolstered by real-world examples, Testing Applications on the Web proves itself an extremely worthwhile resource. --Richard Dragan

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A software testing survival guide for those who work in Internet time With Internet applications spreading like wildfire, the field of software testing is increasingly challenged by the brave new networked world of e-business. This book brings you up to speed on the technologies, testing concepts, and tools you'll need to run e-business applications on the Web. Written by Hung Nguyen, a coauthor of the bestselling software testing book of all time, Testing Computer Software, this new guide takes you to the next level, helping you apply your existing skills to the testing of B2B (Business-to-Business), B2C (Business-to-Consumer), and internal Web-based applications. You'll learn how to test transactions across networks, explore complex systems for errors, and work efficiently with the many components at play--from servers to browsers to protocols. Most importantly, you'll get detailed instructions on how to carry out specific test types along with case studies and error examples for each test.

Software testers, test leads and test managers, QA analysts and managers, and IT managers and staff will find this an invaluable resource for their testing projects. With an emphasis on achievable goals and necessary rather than nice-to-have features, Testing Applications on the Web provides:
* An analysis of the Web-application model and the difference between Web testing and traditional testing
* A tutorial on the methodology and techniques for networking technologies and component-based testing
* Strategies for test planning, test case designing, and error analysis on the Web
* Effective real-world practices for UI (User Interface) tests, security tests, installation tests, load and stress tests, database tests, and more
* A survey of commercial tools and a sampling of proven test matrices and templates

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Software engineers have developed sophisticated test methodologies over the years that just don't do the job for Web-based software. Distributed applications have different performance goals from desktop applications and require networking know-how of the tester. This book introduces the essential technologies, testing concepts, and techniques needed to effectively run e-business systems. Readers will learn how to test B2B applications, B2C applications, and internal applications. Nguyen also offers advice about the Web application model, servers, browsers, protocols, and much more. He provides strategies for test planning and bug tracking, as well as effective test techniques for UI tests, security tests, load and stress tests, and database tests. And a survey of commercial tools is provided along with a sampling of proven test matrices and templates.

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5 out of 5 stars Superseded by a better second edition.......2004-06-22

When industry leaders such as Cem Kaner and Bret Pettichord extol the virtues of this book you can be assured that it is great - everything they and other reviewers have said is on target. Moreover, you'd be hard-pressed to walk into the testing area in any company and not see a copy of this book on someone's desk.

That said, instead of this book you should get the second edition, which is a major rewrite, and also expanded in scope to include testing mobile systems. This edition is titled, "Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Mobile and Internet-Based Systems" ISBN 0471201006, and is everything others have said about this first edition - and more!

Even with a better second edition, this book deserves the five stars I gave it because of the influence it has had on the testing profession. Moreoever, this first edition is not out-of-date, and is still a great book if you don't need information about testing mobile web systems at this time (although it's a safe bet you will in the future).

4 out of 5 stars Organized and professional.......2004-06-09

This book is about web testing in general, not just performance testing, and is a must have for the professional testing engineer. Chapters 7 and 8, on performance and scalability give a very good introduction to the subject, and include a great sample performance testing plan.

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5 out of 5 stars Superb introduction to the complexities of web testing.......2002-02-28

I have been in web testing for 3.5 years and this was the first book I found on the subject. My only complaint is that it took so long to come out, but I won't hold that against Nguyen or Wiley. It is a superb introduction to the complexities of web testing, which despite the protests of standalone application testers, is much more difficult and technical than traditional application testing. Not only does the tester need to know the basics of application testing, he or she has to know about the complex technology behind the site or application, and Nguyen's book is unbeatable. I've recommended that everyone on my team read it, since they are all new to the art of web testing. I read it cover to cover and it didn't really cover anything I had not learned in 3.5 years of experience, but had it been published when I started, I would have been able to ramp up so much faster. I also recommend that application developers read it in order to understand the role of a tester and to develop professional respect for a much-maligned profession.

5 out of 5 stars Grey Box Testing for Web Applications.......2001-08-13

Grey box testing is based on a general understanding of a system's architecture and components. This understanding drives test strategy and identifies opportunities to test components in isolation.

The shade of grey can vary from white box testing (full review of source code) to black box testing (no review of source code). You choose what level of information to gather depending on your budget, capabilities and judgment.

This book provides the first detailed approach to grey box testing, focussing on web-based application architectures. These architectures are based on a heavy use of components: application servers, web servers, load balancers, databases and the like. This book describes these components, suggests how they can fail and what you can do to anticipate, trigger, or detect such failures.

This approach is supported by the author's extensive experience testing web-based (and other) applications as president of a software testing company. It is augmented by plenty of good advice on how to communicate test results clearly.

5 out of 5 stars A strong introduction to a new field.......2001-04-21

This is good book. If you test web apps, you should buy it.

Hung Nguyen and I are co-authors of another book and good friends. I am not an unbiased reviewer. On the other hand, I wouldn't write this review if I didn't believe every word of it.

Hung's book breaks new ground. It will be useful today, and I believe it will have lasting value and influence.

Once you get beyond the superficial (not unimportant, but much less difficult) issues of usability testing that dominate so many discussions of web testing, you run into the really tough problems of web application testing. Hung Nguyen's book is about those harder problems.

The web-based application runs on a wider range of platforms than any other type of program in history. It doesn't even have control over its presentation layer (the user supplies the browser and the multimedia plugins, and these applications might change any time). What will the application look like on the changed browser? The application probably also relies on third party databases (which can change any time), third party network connections (which can change any time), third party security systems and other access control (which can change any time), etc., etc. Almost anything in this system can change any time. How do you deal with a system that has so many unknowns?

Hung's view is that web application testers must learn more about the technical details of the systems and understand how external variables can interact (and fail) with the application under test.

To help testers learn about the interaction (and testing) of applications with other system components, he wrote the field's first book on grey box testing.

This book has substantial value for what it teaches us about testing on the web. Beyond that, it teaches about thinking clearly and thoroughly when your application interacts in complex ways with other systems. I think his approach will have lasting value and lasting influence long after many of the detailed issues that he describes have been resolved and replaced with new ones.

Along with the original approach, Hung gives a powerful real-world example. He is the president of a company that publishes a web-based bug tracking system. To illustrate the types of tests that you can run and the types of bugs you can find, he opened his records and described real tests, real bugs, and real testing problems. It's a rare treat to see a discussion of testing experience by someone who knows testing, who also intimately knows the software under test, and who isn't constrained in what he can say by a nondisclosure contract.
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    Financial Modeling For Options, Futures, And Derivatives
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      This book offers a detailed picture of how options, futures, and derivatives behave in the market and explains how to build corresponding financial models with real-world applications. It uses a binomial approach that allows readers to build and manipulate the models on a spreadsheet. Based on the progressive complexity of the financial securities, the flow of logic omits continuous time mathematics and stochastic differential equations.LFinancial Modeling for Options, Futures & Derivatives consists of three parts: fundamental concepts of options, taxonomy of options, and advanced topics. The first part highlights the foundations of option theory-basic behavior, modeling methodology, and assumptions of the model. The second part describes the most important and prevalent types of options. The third part discusses the issues surrounding option model implementation and recent research into applications of option theory. A companion website contains downloadable ExcelRG files of all the financial models relevant to options, futures, and derivatives.

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      1 out of 5 stars Not Impressed.......2003-04-20

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      Lawyers find success outside the corporate office.(Law): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
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                    4 out of 5 stars studying the insides of objects.......2006-06-24

                    The subject is a fascinating one that takes the ideas of X-rays, CAT and PET scanning one step further. The book studies how it might be possible to image the inside of some object, using any internal reflecting surfaces. Furthermore, the electromagnetic waves that are used as probes can be fairly low energy. We're not talking about synchrotron levels of beam intensity.

                    The book discusses how to extract quantitative results. And how various parameters, like material depth, might be found from the scattering problem. Efficient computational techniques are also stressed.
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                          The Physics of Extragalactic Radio Sources
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                            David S. De Young
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                            Extragalactic radio sources are among the most unusual and spectacular objects in the universe, with sizes in excess of millions of light years, radiated energies over ten times those of normal galaxies, and a unique morphology. They reveal some of the most dramatic physical events ever seen and provide essential clues to the basic evolutionary tracks followed by all galaxies and groups of galaxies.

                            In The Physics of Extragalactic Radio Sources, David De Young provides a clearly written overview of what is currently known about these objects. A unique feature of the book is De Young's emphasis on the physical processes associated with extragalactic radio sources: their evolution, their environment, and their use as probes to solve other astrophysical problems. He also makes extensive use of the large amount of data now available from observations at x-ray, optical, and radio wavelengths to illustrate his main points.
                            The Physics of Extragalactic Radio Sources will be a comprehensive introduction to the field for graduate students and a useful summary for astrophysicists.
                            Clusters of Galaxies and Extragalactic Radio Sources (Horizons in World Physics)
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                              Clusters of Galaxies and Extragalactic Radio Sources (Horizons in World Physics)

                              Manufacturer: Nova Science Publishers
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                              Hot Spots in Extragalactic Radio Sources: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Frg, February 8-12, 1988 (Lecture Notes in Physics)
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                                Hot Spots in Extragalactic Radio Sources: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Frg, February 8-12, 1988 (Lecture Notes in Physics)
                                K. Meisenheimer
                                Manufacturer: Springer
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                                Jets in Extragalactic Radio Sources: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Frg, September 22-28, 1991 (Lecture Notes in Physics)
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                                  Jets in Extragalactic Radio Sources: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Frg, September 22-28, 1991 (Lecture Notes in Physics)
                                  H. J. Roser
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                                  The existence of jets emanating from the central sources of radio galaxies and quasars was perhaps the most important discovery for our understanding of the nature of active galactic nuclei. These proceedings present reviews and research papers on extragalactic radio sources. The book begins with a discussion of the phenomenology and models of radio sources. The main part is devoted to detailed studies of jets by VLBI, to the information obtained about the structure of the central source as deduced from variability studies, to production, confinement and velocity of jets as well as to numerical simulations of the jet phenomenon. Reviews of the two best studied jets - those in the radio galaxy M87 and the quasar 3C273 - illustrate our current observational picture of extragalactic radio jets in all accessible wavelength ranges. A section on the influence of the environment on radio galaxies concludes the book. This topical volume addresses researchers and graduate students in astrophysics.
                                  Physics of Energy Transport in Extragalactic Radio Sources: Proceedings of NRAO Workshop No. 9 held at Green Bank, West Virginia on July 20 to August 3, 1984.
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                                    Physics of Energy Transport in Extragalactic Radio Sources: Proceedings of NRAO Workshop No. 9 held at Green Bank, West Virginia on July 20 to August 3, 1984.

                                    Manufacturer: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
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                                    The Physics of Extragalactic Radio Sources
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                                      The Physics of Extragalactic Radio Sources
                                      David S. De Young
                                      Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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                                      Knees up Mother Earth (Brentford Trilogy)
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                                      Knees up Mother Earth (Brentford Trilogy)
                                      Robert Rankin
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                                      Developers are planning to destroy Brentford's beloved football grounds. Something must be done, and the lads of The Flying Swan, Brentford’s celebrated drinking house, take up the challenge. Norman has recently discovered a Victorian computer that holds the secrets of the super-technology of a bygone age, and Archroy, Brentford’s lone explorer, has just returned from his seventh voyage, bringing with him the fabled Golden Fleece. Surely, with these stalwarts working for the cause, the field is as good as saved. But this is Brentford, and the ancient forces of evil—Old Testament horrors, beasties from the bottomless pit, that sort of evil—are stirring.

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                                      4 out of 5 stars Very good.......2007-07-16

                                      All the old characters come back for a good one. Read the early books first, but don't miss this one.

                                      4 out of 5 stars Brentford United!.......2004-11-11

                                      I only have one gripe with this book! The Campbell's a good guy!?! I'm a MacDonald! Surely this must have been a typo by Mr Rankin?

                                      Aside from that, tis good, fun filled frivolity, copious in-jokes, straw hatted ladies, deamons threatening the Large drinking residents of Brentford with only O'Mally n Pooley to save them, with a little help from an aged Professor, H G Wells, the wisdom of Rune,and not to mention a sprout named Barry.. you get the idea.

                                      Cthulhu has a cameo role too, which pleased me, as last i heard he'd taken to hiding in phoneboxes and dialing up people at odd hours of the day! Nothing like a bit of taking over the world to get you back on track!

                                      All in all, tis a good read indeed, and well worth adding to your Rankin collection. If your new to Rankin, imagine Tom Sharpe with Ben Elton, then think of the combined creature being very drunk! Thats the spirit! You know theres wit, satire, politics, and crudity, it may give you a bad head, and perhaps mother would not approve... but, you know you want it anyway!

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                                      4 out of 5 stars Generally funny.......2004-09-24

                                      Knees Up Mother Earth concerns the forces of darkness and their attempts to gain control of Brentford football (soccer) ground, so they can bring about Apocalypse. Only two professional layabouts can save the world, by getting Brentford to win the FA cup. This is near-impossible, but the forces of darkness aren't about to let it happen. Then things get complicated, when all sorts of strangeness appears...
                                      Rankin likes in-jokes, wordplay, and general silliness, but it's not comedy, more sly humour. This isn't as good as some of his books, but it's not bad. It's a good break from more serious reading.
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                                          Robert Rankin
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