This book is a guide to software testing of mobile apps, web apps, and games. It covers all aspects of testing such as manual testing, test cases design, automation testing, exploratory testing and performance testing. The book discusses tips, techniques, and tools for the every day tester needed to accomplish their job. It also includes advice on how to be a better tester and test manager.

For those of you who need to quickly ramp up on SQL, but have no time to plow through a 600-page tome, this is for you. SQL in 30 Pages is a brief e-booklet of fewer than 4,000 words, designed to get you into SQL as fast as possible, as easily as possible. There is no bull in this Micro-Manual by popular online teacher U.Q. Magnusson. From the very first page you will learn about the basic concepts of SQL, including the command-line interface, the CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, and...

Some companies think that adopting devops means bringing in specialists or a host of new tools. With this practical guide, you’ll learn why devops is a professional and cultural movement that calls for change from inside your organization. Authors Ryn Daniels and Jennifer Davis provide several approaches for improving collaboration within teams, creating affinity among teams, promoting efficient tool usage in your company, and scaling up what works throughout your organization’s i...

Have you ever felt frustrated working with someone else’s code? Difficult-to-maintain source code is a big problem in software development today, leading to costly delays and defects. Be part of the solution. With this practical book, you’ll learn 10 easy-to-follow guidelines for delivering Java software that’s easy to maintain and adapt. These guidelines have been derived from analyzing hundreds of real-world systems.Written by consultants from the Software Improvement Group (SIG)...

Get Started with Oracle Fusion DevelopmentWritten by a Group Product Manager at Oracle, this Oracle Press guide gets you up and running quickly with your first Oracle Fusion applications. Quick Start Guide to Oracle Fusion Development provides only the essential information you need to build applications in a matter of hours. Rapidly learn the building blocks and functionality you’ll use most of the time. The progression of topics closely matches the application building...

If you're a system administrator, developer, or site reliability engineer responsible for handling hundreds or even thousands of nodes in your network, the Puppet configuration management tool will make your job a whole lot easier. This practical guide shows you what Puppet does, how it works, and how it can provide significant value to your organization.Through hands-on tutorials, DevOps engineer Jo Rhett demonstrates how Puppet manages complex and distributed components to ensure...

Dive and explore into the latest addons of the latest Git.Key Features\[\*\]Master all the basic concepts of Git to protect your code and make it easier to evolve\[\*\]Use Git proficiently, and learn how to resolve day-by-day challenges easily\[\*\]This step-by-step guide is packed with examples to help you learn and work with Git’s internalsBook DescriptionSince its inception, Git has attracted skilled developers due to its...

Learn how web applications can be built efficiently using ASP.NET Core 2.0 and related frameworksKey Features? Get to grips with the new features and APIs introduced in ASP.NET Core 2.0? Leverage the MVC framework and Entity Framework Core 2 to build efficient applications? Learn to deploy your web applications in new environments such as the cloud and DockerBook DescriptionThe ability to develop web applications that are hig...

Put Unity to use for your video games by creating your own custom tools with editor scriptingKey FeaturesBook DescriptionOne of Unity's most powerful features is the extensible editor it has. With editor scripting, it is possible to extend or create functionalities to make video game development easier. For a Unity developer, this is an important topic to know and understand because adapting Unity editor scripting to video games saves a great deal of t...

To get the most out of modern JavaScript, you need learn the latest features of its parent specification, ECMAScript 6 (ES6). This book provides a highly practical look at ES6, without getting lost in the specification or its implementation details. Armed with practical examples, author Nicolas Bevacqua shows you new ways to deal with asynchronous flow control, declare objects or functions, and create proxies or unique sets, among many other features.The first title in Bevacqua’s M...

A fast-paced guide to get you up and running with Android application development using Android Studio 2Key Features\[\*\] Configure, build, and run Android projects with Android Studio 2\[\*\] Test your apps using the Android emulator and learn how to manage virtual devices\[\*\] Explore how Android Studio 2 can be made a part of your workflow to reduce the overall development timeBook DescriptionAndroid Studio 2, the offici...

It's said, ETL concept gained popularity in the 1970s when organizations began using multiple data repositories, or databases, to store different types of business information but only as a technical concept. The need to integrate data that was spread across these databases grew quickly. ETL became the standard method for taking data from disparate sources and transforming it before loading it to a target source, or destination. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, data warehouses came onto ...