Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the Second Edition by Geoff Thompson
- Foreword to the First Edition by Maurice Rosenburgh
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- PART 1 THE TRADITIONAL TESTING PROCESS
- PART 2 THE TESTING PROCESS IN THE REAL WORLD: ILLUSTRATIVE CASE STUDIES
- Case Study 1 The British Library
- Case Study 2 Reuters Product Acceptance Group
- Case Study 3 Crown Quality Assurance Group
- Case Study 4 The Wine Society
- Case Study 5 Automatic Data Processing Limited
- Case Study 6 Confirmit
- PART 3 THE APPENDICES
- References
- Glossary
- Index
Case Study 1 - The British Library
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the Second Edition by Geoff Thompson
- Foreword to the First Edition by Maurice Rosenburgh
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- PART 1 THE TRADITIONAL TESTING PROCESS
- PART 2 THE TESTING PROCESS IN THE REAL WORLD: ILLUSTRATIVE CASE STUDIES
- Case Study 1 The British Library
- Case Study 2 Reuters Product Acceptance Group
- Case Study 3 Crown Quality Assurance Group
- Case Study 4 The Wine Society
- Case Study 5 Automatic Data Processing Limited
- Case Study 6 Confirmit
- PART 3 THE APPENDICES
- References
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
Overview of the Organization
The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom. Its work is supported by the expertise of more than 2,000 staff and by links with other organizations worldwide. The library provides:
Internationally important reading room and inquiry services
The world's leading document supply services
Specialist information services in key subject areas
On-line and Web-based services
Essential services for the library, archives, and information world
Library facilities for the general public.
The library's outstanding collection, developed for more than 250 years, contains more than 150 million items and represents every age of written civilization, every written language, and every aspect of human thought.
BL can be seen as the most complete of all the case studies, embodying aspects of each of the process elements described in Part 1 of this book.
Characteristics of the Testing Requirement
BL has a significant reliance on software systems to support its business for the purposes of:
Maintaining very large quantities of information on document holdings
Maintaining extensive lender personal details
Recording details of document borrowings
Maintaining on-line catalogue searching (involving millions of records)
Supporting large-scale document supply.
The majority of these systems need to interoperate in order to inspect or exchange data and/or to invoke operations on other systems. The systems in use are of various ages, based on a variety of implementation technologies, and frequently supported on different operating systems and hardware platforms.
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- Testing ITAn Off-the-Shelf Software Testing Process, pp. 130 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010