The structure of
client/server systems requires new approaches to testing
them. What new kinds of things can go wrong in
client/server systems? What new tests are needed? Will
the small versions that we test scale up to production
loads? This class gives you the answers.
You'll learn innovative
techniques for easily simulating most of the things that
can go wrong - I/O errors, server down, records locked,
lost messages and many more. Then you can test the
system's response to these events without having to
actually create the conditions. And the tests are easy to
"can" for regression testing later.
There's material on how to do
performance and scalability testing so that you get valid
results. It's based on an insightful analysis of how
systems respond to increasing load, and what makes them
fail in various ways. With this information, it's clear
how we need to do load testing.
Bonus: When you take this
course in Web form, you also receive all the material for
traditional testing that's in Software Testing In The
Real World, integrated and adapted for client/server
applications.
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