Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 408 pages
- Published by: Sams
- Edition: 2nd Edition August 5, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0672327988
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0672327988
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.3 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
Software Testing, Second Edition provides practical insight into the world of
software testing and quality assurance. Learn how to find problems in any computer program, how to plan an effective test approach and how to tell when
software is ready for release. Updated from the previous edition in 2000 to include a chapter that specifically deals with testing
software for security bugs, the processes and techniques used throughout the book are timeless. This book is an great investment if you want to better understand what your
software Test team does or you want to write better software.
Download Description
Software Testing is the book for new or aspiring
software testers interested in learning about this crucial part of the
software development process. The complexity and size of today's
software makes writing bug-free code extremely difficult, even for highly experienced programmers. Couple that with our increasing reliance on
software for performing everyday tasks and its pervasiveness in the medical, telecommunications, manufacturing, and financial industries, and a
software bug can spell disaster. Quality
software can't be created with an ad- hoc, part-time, bug hunt. It requires a methodical and disciplined approach to preventing, finding, and reporting bugs.
software Testing will show you what it takes to be a successful
software tester, assuring that you discover those nasty bugs before your customers do.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Software Testing (Paperback)
Ouch -- I see the previous review was pretty harsh and terse. Having written a book myself (also for SAMS, coincidentally), I know that doesn't feel good or help much. Anyway, I came to amazon today specifically to order this book after I perused it at the bookstore for a while this weekend. I wasn't going to buy it, but then it sank in and I decided I should. My QA bible is Robert V. Binder's massive tome "Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools." That book is the best book out there for hard core software QA engineers. But it's not for everyone. It's huge, it's somewhat inaccessible (even though Bob Binder might not want it to be), and it's more than many people need. The reason I am buying Ron Patton's book today is that it's relatively short, it covers all the basics in good, solid detail, and it nicely summarizes some of the same stuff you find in Binder. No, Ron Patton's book doesn't include a UML reference or a full blow out of state machines and combinatorial models, but should every QA book do that? I don't think so. This book has some good stuff and I will use it and recommend it to try to make some things more accessible to new people joining my team and to managers and QA engineers in other departments who aren't ready or willing to digest something like Binder.
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