Risk-Based E-business Testing

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• Publisher: Artech House
• Year: 2001
• eBook ISBN: 9781580535700
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Business
• Index: Business

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.

Table of contents

• Contents vii
• Preface xix
• Acknowledgments xxvii
• Part I: The Risk-Based Testing Approach 1
• 1 Introduction to Risk-Based Testing 3
• 2 Risk Management and Testing 21
• 3 Risk: A Better Language for Software Testing 37
• 4 Risk-Based Test Strategy 51
• Part II: Risk-Based E-Business Testing 83
• 5 E-Business and the Consequences of Failure 85
• 6 Types of Web Site Failures 93
• 7 E-Business Test Strategy 105
• 8 From Risk Analysis to a Test Process 119
• Part III: E-Business Test Techniques and Tools 129
• 9 Static Testing 131
• 10 Web Page Integration Testing 147
• 11 Functional Testing 165
• 12 Service Testing 191
• 13 Usability Assessment 227
• 14 Security Testing 245
• 15 Large-Scale Integration Testing 263
• 16 Postdeployment Monitoring 281
• 17 Tools for E-Business Testing 291
• Part IV: Making E-Business Testing Happen 307
• 18 The Context of E-Business Testing 309
• 19 E-Business Test Organization, Planning, and Specification 321
• 20 E-Business Test Execution 347
• Appendix A: Essential Web Technologies for Testers 355
• Appendix B: Web Testing Using Home-Brew Tools 359
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 369
• Glossary 373
• About the Authors 385
• Index 387