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 | | The Art of Software Testing by Glenford J. Myers ISBN-10: 9780471043287 ISBN-10: 0-471-04328-1 ISBN-13: 9780471043287 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-04328-7 Hardcover 1979-02-20 John Wiley & Sons Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description Provides a practical rather than theoretical discussion of the purpose and nature of software testing. Emphasizes methodologies for the design of effective test cases. Comprehensively covers psychological and economic principles, managerial aspects of testing, test tools, high-order testing, code inspections, and debugging. Extensive bibliography. Programmers at all levels, and programming students, will find this reference work indispensible. | ||
Download Description The Art of Software Testing, Second Edition is a revision of the bestselling guide from a leading computer expert and author. It provides a practical discussion of the purpose and nature of software testing, offering the latest methodologies for the design of effective test cases. | ||
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The basic text for software testing The Art of Software Testing provides the novice with the essentials for developing and implementing a comprehensive testing approach. It's also a valuable resource for those with experience. I dive into this book constantly. The premise is simple enough: How can you write effective test cases that adequately exercise your system requirements? Myers suggests that good software testing depends on the answer. Testing what the program is supposed to do is only part of the battle. However, in my experience, this is usually where we plant our flag. This can be difficult enough, depending on the quality of the criteria. Bad or vague requirements necessarily lead to insufficient and flawed testing. As a result negative testing, boundary testing, testing for unexpected conditions, and so forth will often go by the wayside. In addition, testing is often presented as a gateway to production, and can be cursory as a result. The creativity and time that adequate test cases demand are simply not within project scope. This is often exacerbated by intent to pass systems without finding errors. Myers addresses these issues as he explores test planning and creation. Hence this book really belongs on the shelves, not only of software testers, but project management as well. The methodology of requirements-based testing is not new. However the profession is growing and more sectors are discovering the need for testing their systems. Art of Software Testing is still relevant and should be promulgated. | ||
I can imagine how difficult it is to write short and good... I read about a dozen of books about testing, and I put this one into a reference for my workers. This is short and very robust. My highest rank. | ||
Very good reference for Testing Software This book is very interesting to learn or to progress (I have 10 years of experience in software developpement) in Art of Testing. The only tedious point is that the author are not really integrate the new principales of Test Driven Development in its book. So, I advise to read a book on this subject before or after. Benoit, a French Programmer ;-) | ||
Updated classic--Inadequate Value for the Money It's hard to give the appropriate number of stars to this edition. On the one hand, this is one of the classics of the field, and deservedly so. In it's first edition, this may have been the first great book on testing, and there is something about the "first great book" on any topic that makes it a lasting value decades later: DeMarco on Structured Analysis, Brooks on the wicked complexity of software project management, Booch on object-oriented design, K&R on C. And so I think it goes with The Art of Software Testing. It's a short book, and full of good ideas that will stay with you. But. This revised edition is simply a terrible value. At the full list price, you'd be paying something like fifty cents a page...and, let me tell you, a book had better revolutionize my life for that kind of money. I'm a dedicated capitalist sell-out software developer, but this kind of pricing arouses even _my_ hacker sensibilities. Also, the value of the revision is questionable: there may be a chapter on Extreme Programming, but it seems to me that the best material in this book is still the classic text that survives from the 1st ed. So, my recommendation is that you simply _buy_ the first edition, new or used, at a fraction of the price. Then, you get nearly all of the benefit, plus the cachet of having the "classic" on your shelf. You can put it right next to "The C Programming Language" and "The Mythical Man-Month." Then, your visitors will know you're a serious software developer...and, you know what? They'll probably be right. I also like and recommend Kaner, Falk and Nguyen, "Testing Computer Software," for a more in-depth and up-to-date treatment of testing issues. | ||
Excellent value for money This book is expensive, however it is well worth its price. A top 10 book for IT professionnals. | ||