Small white Growth Advice (3)-Reading and choosing books-clouds

Getting Started with testing

Once we have an understanding of the industry and what we need to have, let's talk about getting started with testing. So the test is what, simply speaking, through a certain effective way to simulate the user running software, prove that the software can achieve a certain level of quality means it. Here I use the words are not standardized, in fact, we do not care too much about the testing of some of the specific concepts of how to say, in general, is better more better, I would like to mention here first about the general concern of the test to see what the book of the problem.

How to read and how to choose a book

I have to make a good reading and how to choose a book to say before I can talk about specific recommendations. In fact, it seems to me that the book is not good or bad, one of the books can not be rotten to a point of no use, but it must have a knowledge and reading groups.

How to choose a book

How to call it a good book, I think the right book for you to read is a good book, and not others think this book is good, do not pony across the river, book their own turn to know is not suitable for their own. How do you call it the right one, the personal definition is this:

1. Moderate Difficulty

What is difficult to moderate, that is 1/3 you think relatively simple to understand, 1/3 you feel a little difficult to carefully ponder, 1/3 you do not understand, such a difficulty ratio will make you do not feel reading too painful, no sense of accomplishment. If I can't look at the first few pages, I can't believe you're confident in reading the whole book.

2. The thicker the better

For the same content, thick books must be more detailed than the thin book, thin books are often donuts, will make you feel that things are so little things, and thick book in some details to you do not pay attention to some places, and in detail to introduce you inside the mystery, although you use the probability may not be very high

3. Writing style

Each author's writing style is different, thinking and system is not the same, so when you buy a book you must read some chapters to see if the author's ideas and whether you are the same, or whether you are willing to accept the author's ideas. For example, the author's writing is the standard technical details layers of advancement, then suitable for those who like to ponder over the details of the person, and the author is the direction of the donuts, then it is suitable for those who have a subjective person to understand the direction.

So the best way to buy a book is to go to the bookstore or online to see the relevant comments, and then calm down to read the author's preface and Probation chapters, in order to understand the author's style and ideas. If you have the conditions to go to the bookstore to sit and read the book in a simple way, this time, you can consider whether to buy a book.

Here to add a little money to buy some books, otherwise the author is starved.

How to read

Reading is really a door trick, there are many ways to read, but the ultimate goal is to either be a dictionary quick-check, or when the weapon master. But the purpose of reading must be clear, if you want to read a book to help you solve specific problems, then it is best to Baidu or directly ask others. It is difficult to solve your problem immediately by reading a book, more often it is to let you reduce memory and understand the truth.

Personal talk about some of the main points of reading and so-called methods:

1. See what you are interested in and what you can read

Often a book has a lot of things, you buy books there must be needs and want to understand the content, then first to see the simple things, to ensure that these things you are recognized and can be synchronized, to familiar with the author's writing and ideas

2. Skip the habit of not understanding

Not all of the things you can take it natural to understand, when you do not understand the appropriate jumping some is very normal, if you jump to the end has not read, then the first not understand the front is the foundation behind, then you have to look back. Otherwise you can understand the place to understand, and then look back to understand the place, so efficiency will be higher.

3. Habits ask why

The book is not an axiom, does not mean that the book written things must be right, so the endorsement is not a good habit. When reading a book, you must ask yourself why, this must be right? Read the book is not to look at the line, you need to understand why the author wrote, when you and the author of the idea of synchronization, then it is easy for you to read why this writing.

4. Turn the book into your own

How to turn a book into your own, the key is to understand the book to read the book thin. It's easier said than done. In fact, I do not love reading, but my personal approach is to look at the directory to know the structure, and then a chapter to think about what to write a mind map a kind of things, when you see the mind map or directory, you want to understand the book said what, in fact, many books you know there is a way to do so, It can be solved quickly when needed.

Back to the point, then after saying how to choose a book and how to read, talk about the basic feeling I have seen the book, first of all, to get started,

Software testing [US] Ron Patton, Zhou, Yiu Jing, etc.

This is a person feel the most easy-to-understand software testing basic book, the reason is very simple, Chinese people write books like textbooks, foreigners write books hope simple popular, specific reasons I do not more spit groove, not we can not write out is some approval.

The remaining books are often textbooks, so that you can see to sleep, no way to test the theory of things indeed more points, and some things may not be used for a lifetime, since to recommend, I can only say that their own search it. (later chapters I will follow my mind to write the knowledge point will not be as thin as the book, but enough to get you started)

In addition to this book, "People's Month myth" "Person Piece" "Deadline" I think all is good reading, the key are electronic version.

Small white Growth Advice (3)-Reading and choosing books-clouds