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How Google Tests Software Paperback – 11 May 2012
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Discover 100% practical, amazingly scalable techniques for analysing risk and planning tests…thinking like real users…implementing exploratory, black box, white box, and acceptance testing…getting usable feedback…tracking issues…choosing and creating tools…testing “Docs & Mocks,” interfaces, classes, modules, libraries, binaries, services, and infrastructure…reviewing code and refactoring…using test hooks, presubmit scripts, queues, continuous builds, and more. With these techniques, you can transform testing from a bottleneck into an accelerator―and make your whole organisation more productive!
- ISBN-100321803027
- ISBN-13978-0321803023
- Edition1st
- PublisherPearson
- Publication date11 May 2012
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions17.78 x 2.03 x 23.11 cm
- Print length320 pages
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About the Author
Jason Arbon is a test engineer at Google and has been responsible for testing Google Desktop, Chrome, and Chrome OS. He also served as development lead for an array of open-source test tools and personalization experiments. He worked at Microsoft prior to joining Google.
Jeff Carollo is a software engineer in test at Google and has been responsible for testing Google Voice, Toolbar, Chrome, and Chrome OS. He has consulted with dozens of internal Google development teams helping them improve initial code quality. He converted to a software engineer in 2010 and leads development of Google+ APIs. He also worked at Microsoft prior to joining Google."
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- Publisher : Pearson; 1st edition (11 May 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0321803027
- ISBN-13 : 978-0321803023
- Dimensions : 17.78 x 2.03 x 23.11 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 377,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 286 in Software Testing
- 499 in Cloud Computing
- 504 in Software Design & Engineering Textbooks
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Jason Arbon has worked in development, test and product manager roles at a wide range of companies. He’s currently Director of Product and Engineering at Applause.com (formerly uTest.com), focusing on mobile apps and analytics to quantify quality. Applause.com handles the crowd-sourced testing of hundreds of well-known applications from Google, to Twitter, Microsoft, Netflix, Fox and HBO, and many high profile mobile startups.
Previously, Jason held test leadership and innovation roles at Google on projects such as personalized search on Google+, Chrome Browser, Chrome OS, Google Desktop, and Google Talk and lead the centralized test engineering team. Jason also worked on teams at Microsoft including Bing (Search Relevance, Live QnA, WinFS, BizTalk Server, MSN, Windows CE and Exchange Server. Along the way, He co-founded a small social search start up, and worked at several small and mid-size companies. He also co-authored the book ‘How Google Tests Software’. Jason’s weekends are spent working on his mobile app project to distribute the right content to the right person, at the right place and time @ http://www.herecandy.com. He’s received degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Utah.
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It has made me aware of a number of tools and techniques that could be used in testing.
Will hopefully try some of the ideas, albeit on a smaller scale.


I wasn't a big fan of this book. The forward and intro started very strong. I was elated with the little bit in the beginning that talks about good "Code Hygene", but then there's the admission that Google uses this book for "Noogler orientation" (why is this not noted on the book synopsis?), and the last half of the book is padded with several interviews with Googlers that just seemed to add more opinion than fact at the back of the book. Fluff. Lots of it.
It's not all bad though. If you are working at the scale of Google, this book explains the org chart and relationship of SWE, SET, TE, TEM's. I found this interesting (the first couple chapters), but I'm working with teams of 20, not 200! As a long-time developer already performing automated testing, there was nothing in this book that I can take and apply in my daily work.