New material for the thisseries is coming more slowly. I am beginning to get into areas where I want tostart posting screen shots of internal Google tools and describe how ourinfrastructure works. This is material that takes longer to develop and als…

One of the key ways Google achievesgood results with fewer testers than many companies is that we rarely attemptto ship a large set of features at once. In fact, the exact opposite is oftenthe goal: build the core of a product and release it the mome…

In order for the "you buildit, you break it" motto to be real, there are roles beyond the traditionaldeveloper that are necessary. Specifically, engineering roles that enable developersto do testing efficiently and effectively have to exist. At…

This is the firstin a series of posts on this topic.The one question I get morethan any other is "How does Google test?" It's been explained in bitsand pieces on this blog but the explanation is due an update. The Googletesting strategy has neve…

Lots of questions in thecomments to the last two posts. I am not ignoring them. Hopefully many of themwill be answered here and in following posts. I am just getting started on thistopic.At Google, quality is notequal to test. Yes I am sure that is t…

Instead of distinguishingbetween code, integration and system testing, Google uses the language ofsmall, medium and large tests emphasizing scope over form. Small tests coversmall amounts of code and so on. Each of the three engineering roles mayexec…

SETs are Software Engineersin Test. They are software engineers who happen to write testing functionality.First and foremost, SETs are developers and the role is touted as a 100% codingrole in our recruiting literature and internal job promotion ladd…

Google是如何做测试的?(一.二) 导读:本文译自 James Whittaker 在 Google 测试官方博客发表的文章<How Google TestsSoftware >. 在所有我被问及的问题中,最多的就是关于谷歌是如何测试的.尽管在博客中(google testing blog)中有过零碎的解释说明,但还是需要更多的系统阐述.虽然谷歌的技术路线在执行的过程中不断地进化,但公司的测试策略却从来没有变化过.谷歌现在是一家拥有搜索.应用.广告.移动.操作系统等产品的公司,我们在这些涉…

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如何使用GOOGLE高级搜索技巧 一,GOOGLE简介 Google(www.google.com)是一个搜索引擎,由两个斯坦福大学博士生Larry Page与Sergey Brin于1998年9月发明,Google Inc. 于1999年创立.2000年7月份,Google替代Inktomi成为Yahoo公司的搜索引擎,同年9月份,Google成为中国网易公司的搜索引擎.98年至今,GOOGLE已经获得30多项业界大奖. 二,GOOGLE特色 GOOGLE支持多达132种语言,包括简体中文和繁…