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Handbook

137 chapters · 12 Parts

Progress from foundations and programming through testing, data, cloud, AI, architecture, and engineering leadership.

1. Part I – Foundations of Modern Software Quality Engineering

   Part I establishes the fundamental principles of Modern Software Quality Engineering (MSQE).

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2. Part II – Programming for Quality Engineers

   Part II develops the programming capability that enables a Quality Engineer to read, write, debug, improve, and review code that produces quality evidence.

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3. Part III — Software Testing Engineering

   Part III develops Software Testing Engineering as a disciplined way to create, interpret, and improve evidence about product and system risk.

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4. Part IV – API Quality Engineering

   Part IV develops API Quality Engineering from first principles.

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5. Part V – Automation Engineering

   Part V develops Automation Engineering as the practice of designing, operating, and improving maintainable automation systems that produce trustworthy, timely, and diagnosable quality evidence.

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6. Part VI – Data Quality Engineering

   Part VI develops Data Quality Engineering as the practice of designing, evaluating, and improving trustworthy evidence about data as it moves through representations, transformations, storage, pipelines, interfaces, and business decisions.

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7. Part VII — Cloud & DevOps

   Part VII helps experienced QA Engineers become Quality Engineers who can reason about the systems that build, configure, package, promote, deploy, verify, recover, and operate software changes.

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8. Part VIII — Observability & Reliability Engineering

   Part VIII develops the ability to make bounded, evidence-based judgements about how a software system behaves in operation.

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9. Part IX — AI Quality Engineering

   Part IX develops the ability to evaluate AI-enabled systems as systems with uncertain, contextual, and sometimes probabilistic behaviour.

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10. Part X — Performance & Security Engineering

    Part X develops the ability to make bounded, evidence-led judgements about whether a system can meet relevant performance expectations and resist relevant security threats under stated conditions.

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11. Part XI — System Design & Architecture

    Part XI develops the ability to reason about system design and architecture as Quality Engineering.

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12. Part XII — Engineering Leadership & Career Growth

    Part XII develops the ability to make Quality Engineering count inside an organisation.

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