Visual Basic for Testers - new book

EAN (ISBN-13): 9781430211389
Publishing year: 2001
Publisher: Apress

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ISBN/EAN: 9781430211389

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978-1-4302-1138-9
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Author: Joe Sweeney
Title: Visual Basic for Testers
Publisher: Apress; APRESS
539 Pages
Publishing year: 2013-06-05
Berkeley; CA; US
Language: English
37,44 € (DE)
47,00 CHF (CH)
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XXVII, 539 p. 531 illus.

EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Informatik, EDV/Informatik; Microsoftprogrammierung; Verstehen; .NET; Debugging; SQL; Visual Basic; Windows; computer programming; computer science; design; development; language; programming; programming language; software; software testing; testing; B; Microsoft; Software Engineering; Professional and Applied Computing; Software Engineering; BC

One In the Beginning: Preparing for Automated Script Writing.- 1 Automated Software Testing Overview.- 2 Getting Started with Visual Basic on an Automated Testing Project.- Two The Second Stage: Introduction to Automated Script Writing.- 3 Introduction to the Visual Basic Development Environment.- 4 Understanding Visual Basic Application Essentials.- Three Beyond the Basics: Now You’re Testing!.- 5 Creating Test Utilities.- 6 Testing with the Windows Registry.- 7 Introduction to the Windows Application Programmer’s Interface (API).- Four Advanced Topics in Automated Test Scripting.- 8 Introduction to Database Testing.- 9 Introduction to Testing COM Components.- 10 Testing the Web with Visual Basic.- 11 VB.NET: Brave New World.- 12 From Tester to Tester: Advice to the Visual Basic Automator.- Appendixes.- Appendix A Resources and References.- References.- Testing Books.- Visual Basic Books.- General Software Design and Development.- Articles/Journals/Periodicals.- Web Articles Referenced.- Resources.- Recommended Testing Web Sites.- Recommended Visual Basic Web Sites.- Recommended Database Design and SQL Resources.- Recommended Web and ASP Resources.- Recommended Testing Publications.- Recommended Visual Basic Publications.- Appendix B More Controls.- Option Buttons and Checkboxes.- The Frame Control.- The Combo Box Control.- Even More Controls.- Appendix C File Access and Management.- File Management in Visual Basic.- Standard File Access.- The Sequential File.- Writing to a Sequential File.- Reading a Sequential File.- The Random Access File.- Writing to and Reading from a Random Access File.- The Binary Access File.- Appendix D Required Reading: Automated Testing Essays.- About the Authors.- Seven Steps to Test Automation Success by Bret Pettichord.- TestAutomation Snake Oil by James Bach.- Advice for Automated Testers Learning Visual Basic by Elisabeth Hendrickson.
There are no other books on the market that teach Visual Basic from the perspective of a software tester There are no other books on the market that teach testers the programming concepts necessary to successfully write automated test code Speculates on how VB.NET and its focus on Web services will change the testing environment for VB programmers Includes two bonus chapters from Gary Cornell and Jonathan Morrison's, Programming VB.NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers to show testers how VB.NET will (eventually) change things, though testing, by and large, will continue to use VB6 for years to come Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras; - There are no other books on the market that teach Visual Basic from the perspective of a software tester. - There are no other books on the market that teach the programming concepts necessary to successfully write automated test code. - This book is easy to read and understand, and isn't intended to be a high-level technical reference. Rather, it's a practical guide with many examples provided by real testers.