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Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers

You're reading from   Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers Embark on your software engineering journey without exhaustive courses and bulky tutorials

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812115
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jasmine Greenaway Jasmine Greenaway
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Preface 1. Part 1: Software Engineering Basics
2. Chapter 1: Defining Software Engineering FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Software Engineering Life Cycle 4. Chapter 3: Roles in Software Engineering 5. Part 2: Introduction to Programming
6. Chapter 4: Programming Languages and Introduction to C# 7. Chapter 5: Writing Your First C# Program 8. Chapter 6: Data Types in C# 9. Chapter 7: Flow Control in C# 10. Chapter 8: Introduction to Data Structures, Algorithms, and Pseudocode 11. Chapter 9: Applying Algorithms in C# 12. Chapter 10: Object-Oriented Programming 13. Part 3: Software Engineering – the Profession
14. Chapter 11: Stories from Prominent Job Roles in Software Development 15. Chapter 12: Coding Best Practices 16. Chapter 13: Tips and Tricks to Kickstart Your Software Engineering Career 17. Assessments 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

The quality assurance software engineer

Quality assurance (QA) engineers focus on testing the software to confirm its quality. They confirm the software is built to a particular standard and meets the intended requirements, as well as catching bugs and other unusual behaviors in the software. They will sometimes manually inspect the software or will write code that automatically verifies the behavior of the software. QA engineers build plans for testing, called test plans, that contain test cases, which are a list of conditions and inputs that should produce an expected result or output.

For example, if the software has a login page, the QA engineer must think about all the things that a user could do on the page. They could enter the username but not the password and vice versa, they could not enter anything, or even enter the wrong information. It’s the job of the QA engineer to record and verify the behavior of the software and that it is doing what it was intended to...

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