The Art Of Software Testing Free Download

Software testing is more difficult because of the vast array of programming languages, operating systems, and hardware platforms that have evolved in the intervening decades. And while relatively few people used computers in the 1970s, today virtually no one can complete a day’s work without using a computer. Not only do computers exist on your desk, but a ‘‘computer,’’ and consequently software, is present in almost every device we use. Just try to think of the devices today that society relies on that are not software driven. Sure there are some —hammers and wheelbarrows come to mind—but the vast majority use some form of software to operate.
Software is pervasive, whichraises the value of testing it . The machines
themselves are hundreds of times more powerful, and smaller, than those early devices, and today’s concept of ‘‘computer’’ is much broader and more difficult to define. Televisions, telephones, gaming systems, and auto-mobiles all contain computers and computer software, and in some cases can even be considered computers themselves.

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