读书笔记 How Google Tests Software --Foreword by Alberto Savoia

Foreword by Alberto Savoia

The foreword by Alberto Savioa is indeed very interesting because of his humor writing style and considerate experience of engineering work. He first joined Google as engineering director in 2001. At that time, Google had about 200 developers and only three testers!

Alberto Savioa见证了Google从200人发展到20 000人的过程，带领他的团队经历Google的快速成长。因此，在快速成长的公司，他是这样来评价测试工作的。
原文是这样的：
Why the urgency? Well, I don’t believe that any amount of testing can turn a bad idea or an ill-advised product into a success. I do believe that the wrong approach to testing can kill the chances of a good product or company or, at the very least, slow down its growth and open the door for the competition. Google was at that point.Testing had become one of the biggest barriers to continued success and coming up with the right testing strategy to keep up with our ultra-rapid growth in users, products, and employees without slowing the company down involved a lot of innova- tive approaches, unorthodox solutions, and unique tools. Not everything
worked, of course, but in the process, we learned valuable lessons and practices that are applicable to any company that wants to grow or move at the speed of Google.