Updated bug list:
No book on testing would be
complete without a bug list. HWTSAM is no
exception! Some "book people" call this stuff errata, but let's just
call a bug a bug.
Here's what we know about so
far:
1)
In the intro, I state that Ken approached me in the fall of
2007. On reflection, it was actually late fall 2006. I began writing the first
chapter in January 2007 (chapter 4 to be exact). Minor issue, but an Author Bug
nonetheless.
2)
The table on p. 19 is missing a line between USA (California)
and Hyderabad (Production Bug)
3)
On page 95, where the header says. “3BV”, it should say “3BC”
4)
There's a bit of weirdness with the code coverage data on page
119. Bj explains it in detail on
his blog here. (Author bug)
5)
On page 120, the explanation refers to variables names myString
and myCharacter – but we use different variable names in the code (s and c).
(Author Bug).
6)
On page 123, the title of figure 5-6 is incorrect (the function
is SimpleGetNT5ClientVersion).
7)
On page 125, the text refers to the Int.Parse() function, but it
doesn’t exist in the code fragment (oops - Author Bug)
8)
On page 202, the text
reads “Total fixed found / total bugs fixed”, but it should read “Total
bugs fixed / total bugs found”
9)
On page 221, the “Positively False” sidebar is not a sidebar, and in fact the box around it
encompasses the additional points (Supported platforms, Complexity, and Other
factors) and section (We don’t have time to automate this) that aren’t part of
that sidebar (Author Bug)
10)
On page 226, the sample using InvokePattern could use some more
documentation (Author Oversight)
11)
In the code sample on the bottom of page 235, I have mismatched
quotes in two of the lines. (definite Author Bug).
12)
The story about testing on page 227 has the phrase "as
shown in the following graphic" For technical reasons, we pulled that
graphic, but missed that bit of referring text (Author Bug)
13)
On page 236, the method in the code snippet returns the value of
the testPass variable, which is not declared/initialized in the method itself. The
variable should be testResult instead of the testPass.
14)
On page 270, the seconde bullet at the top of the page should
say “…will solve”, instead of “…with solve”
15)
On page 292, we frefer to a “subtle” issue on line 19. That
issue is actually on line 20.
16)
Figure 14-2 on page 327 reads "Browsers (IF, Firefox,
Mozilla)". The IF should be IE or Internet Explorer but not IF (Author Bug)
17)
On page 331, the sentence “They key to success in testing…”
should be, “The key to success…”
18)
On page 346, the diagram uses the word “develoment” – we meant to use the word development.
19)
Part IV starts on p. 363, but the section text at the top of the
pages changes to part IV at the beginning of chapter 14. (Production Bug)
20)
In the index (p. 413), Königsberg has garbage characters in
place of the ö (Production Bug)
21)
We forgot to include a bibliography (or forgot to think
thoroughly about including one). Although we reference a lot of books via
footnotes in the text, one tester in particular is quite annoyed that we didn't
reference the writing that inspired us in the first place. I'll post a
bibliography sometime and include one in the 2nd edition.
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