2015
Software Testing Books
Are you interested to pursue a career in Software Testing? Want to know where you will get the best books on the subject? Want to enrich and update your knowledge on Software Testing? Here ends your search! Here is a select list of highly recommended books for both beginners as well as advanced testers. The software quality assurance books not only deals with the subject but also provides avenues to search for better jobs.
The job of a quality assurance tester is to perform both manual and automated testing. Therefore in the list you will find books both on manual and automated testing.
Software testing is the process where the Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer / Tester tries to evaluate the capabilities of a program. The jobs of a QA Engineer is to design test plans to find bugs in a software, implement test plans, document tests, find out ways which can result in repeating bugs, submit a report to the software development team informing about all the bugs, give feedback in the terms of quality and assist the development team in preventing bugs in a software application. Below is the list of leading Software Testing Books providing fundamentals of various types of testing techniques, tools and test-cases in real projects.
Lessons Learned in Software Testing
(By: Cem Kaner )
This software testing book is a must read for beginners. This book focuses on many common mistakes people make during beginning of the quality assurance job. This book can help you do your job more efficiently. The book provides a resource to the test managers, developers and consultants. It provides live project tips, which can be used to reduce testing budget and to increase efficiency of a test team.
Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software
(By: Adam Goucher)
The book features essays written by leading testers of the industry providing instances from different testing platforms, and it is suitable for managers and testers as it emphasizes on the concepts of customer based testing, explains the use of mini-maps for testing, uses image comparison, provides testing options for open source projects and other technical information valuable to a tester.
(By: Ron Patton)
The book provides information about all the areas in software testing including the web-based testing and test automation. It covers functional aspects, usability, security and also localization. It provides easy solutions instead of using complex formula to define testing methodologies. Though it gives short explanation, it can be used as a complete guide for beginners.
(By: C. Kaner)
The book covers most of the areas of testing including test case design, software errors , test planning , black box testing and it also provides rare information on Verification Testing and designing a test plan. It does not elaborate on various popular methodologies of testing used today but provides some basic information for both experts and new testers.
(By: Rex Black)
The book provides information about test plans, test cases, good practices of testing, and setting up objectives, concrete examples and illustrations accompanying every topic and also how to manage test teams within limited resources. It provides many documents explaining how to start testing projects and informs about metrics in which the performance of testing operation can be tested. It is helpful to both, experts and a novice tester.
Software Testing: A Craftsman’s Approach, Third Edition
(By: Paul C. Jorgensen)
The book provides basic information in test processes and the processes are presented through mathematical formulas. It provides introduction to set theory, graph theory and discrete math in the first sections, and basic – functional, integration, structural testing, and object-oriented testing are discussed in second half of the book.
Implementing Automated Software Testing: How to Save Time and Lower Costs While Raising Quality
(By: Elfriede Dustin)
The book provides information about automated testing and it covers the requirements, automated testing lifecycle, methodologies, identifying best practices, limitations, tools, framework design, reporting and automation types & Interfaces. The book provides cases for reducing costs on testing and explains about the pitfalls of automated testing procedures. The only drawback is it does not provide much information about testing tools.
Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
(By: Lisa Crispin)
The book provides explanation about agile testing, organizational challenges and four testing quadrants. It also tells about exploratory testing, the 10 testing principles, test based development on unit-level, explains the role of software testers, and test automation strategies. It does not provide detailed unit testing but functional testing of higher level is covered in the book. It gives many experience based reports as compared to technical information.
Software testing helps to determine the capabilities of software application and every application requires a different testing approach. The above list of books covers various different aspects of software testing which helps to enhance the capabilities of testers individually and as a team member.
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