A Tester's Guide to .NET Programming

Book Description

A Tester's Guide to .NET Programming focuses solely on applied programming techniques for testers. You will learn how to write simple automated tests, enabling you to test tools and utilities. You will also learn about the important concepts driving modern programming today, like multitier applications and object-oriented programming. More businesses are adopting .NET technologies, and this book will equip you to assess software robustness and performance.

Whether you're an experienced programmer who's unfamiliar with testing concepts, or you're an experienced tester unversed in VB .NET and C#, the included real-world tips and example code will help you start your projects. Also included are review questions and hands-on exercises to help you retain knowledge. Additionally, the book features examples and quick language tutorials for both C# and VB .NET.

Reviews From AMAZON.COM

Excellent Reference

This book is well written, with enough demo code to appeal to those testers with programming experience, yet understandable for those less technical. The organization is superb, with appendices to provide more in-depth information and quick reference, allowing the more experienced readers to jump right to the areas of interest. Definitely a valuable tool for anyone involved in testing .NET applications.

Very good for testers, not so much for others

This book is absolutely targeted to software testers. This isn't an in-depth discussion of why one should use C#'s "as" keyword for safe casting, nor will you find details on asynchronous communication. What you will find is a quick coverage of enough basics to enable testers to start hitting web services, Windows and ASP forms, and even deal with basic COM interoperability

The book is well-written, concise, and in a good voice. The authors carry a common project through much of the book, using the development of a bug reporting system to lay out .NET fundamentals. They use a nice building block approach along the way, starting out sections with the extreme basics and moving on to mid-level topics. (You won't find anything particularly advanced in the book, but again, the focus isn't on pointy-headed developers, it's on pointy-headed testers.)

There are several things I don't care for in the book, mostly from a software engineer's viewpoint. One thing would be the authors' notion of code reuse via copying in code or classes vice simply referencing a different assembly and keeping code in one central spot, but that's from a SE's viewpoint...

This isn't a book for any developer to fool with, but it's an invaluable book for testers looking to learn programming in .NET, specifically tailored for their work as a tester.