Software Testing by Ron Patton

This book on Software Testing is for new or aspiring software test professionals who want to learn about software testing process, models and methodologies. The complexity and size of today’s software makes writing bug-free code extremely difficult, even for highly experienced programmers. This book will provide you a basic road map for becoming successful software test professional and assuring that you uncover critical bugs before the customers or end users do.

This book is divided into six parts containing a total of 22 chapters:

Part 1 – The Big Picture: This part covers topics like Software Testing Background, various development models, error case studies, verification & validation, testing & quality, quality & reliability and some other basic realities of software testing.

Part 2 – Testing Fundamentals: The topics covered in this part are: Black-box box testing, static & dynamic testing, high & low level specifications, equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, reviews, walkthroughs, inspections, types of errors in code, white box testing, data coverage, code coverage, examining the code and some essentials of testing the software application.

Part 3 – Applying your testing skills: Here, some testing types and documentation testing are discussed. It described configuration testing, compatibility testing, foreign language & localization testing, usability testing, security testing and website testing.

Part 4 – Supplementing your testing: It covers basics of automated testing and test tools. It talks about viewers, monitors, drivers, stubs, stress & load tools, analysis tools, random testing, bug bashes and beta testing etc.

Part 5 – Working with Test Documentation: Planning your test effort, test plan, test strategy, writing and tracking test cases, bug reporting and test metrics are the topics covered in this part.

Part 6 – The Future: It talks about some basics of Software Quality Assurance like CMMi, ISO 9001 and career as a software tester.

Other Information:

• Author: Ron Patton
• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: Sams
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672327988
• ISBN-13: 978-0672327988

You may buy this from Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Software-Testing-2nd-Ron-Patton/dp/0672327988/

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