Books Guide: Testing Software

The quality of a data warehouse (DWH) is the elusive aspect of it, not because it is hard to achieve [once we agree what it is], but because it is difficult to describe. We propose the notion that quality is not an attribute or a feature that a product has to possess, but rather a relationship between that product and each and every stakeholder. More specifically, the relationship between the software quality and the organization that produces the products is explored. Quality of data that populates the DWH is the main concern of the book, therefore we propose a definition for data quality as: “fitness to serve each and every purpose”. Methods are proposed throughout the book to help readers achieve data warehouse quality.

This book is written for the technical test analyst who wants to achieve advanced skills in test analysis, design, and execution. With a hands-on, exercise-rich approach, this book teaches you how to define and carry out the tasks required to put a test strategy into action.

Continuous Testing (CT) is a developer practice that shortens the feedback loops established by test-driven development and continuous integration. Building on techniques used by Agile software development practitioners, Continuous Testing with Ruby shows you how to get instant feedback about both the quality of your code, and the quality of your tests.

Java Performance covers the latest Oracle and third-party tools for monitoring and measuring performance on a wide variety of hardware architectures and operating systems. The authors present dozens of tips and tricks you'll find nowhere else.

Test-driven development (TDD) practice helps developers recognize a well-designed application, and encourages writing a test before writing the functionality that needs to be implemented. This hands-on guide provides invaluable insight for creating successful test-driven development processes. With source code and examples featured in both C# and .NET, the book walks you through the TDD methodology and shows how it is applied to a real-world application.

In practice, requirements engineering tasks become more and more complex. In order to ensure a high level of knowledge and training, the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) worked out the training concept "Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering," which defines a requirements engineer’s practical skills on different training levels.

Accurate software engineering reviews and audits have become essential to the success of software companies and military and aerospace programs. These reviews and audits define the framework and specific requirements for verifying software development efforts.

Together, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio Test Professional 2010, Lab Management 2010, and Team Foundation Server offer Microsoft developers the most sophisticated, well-integrated testing solution they've ever had. Now, Microsoft MVP and VS testing guru Jeff Levinson shows exactly how to use Microsoft’s new tools to save time, reduce costs, and improve quality throughout the entire development lifecycle.

TDD is a modern programming practice C developers need to know. It's a different way to program–unit tests are written in a tight feedback loop with the production code, assuring your code does what you think. You get valuable feedback every few minutes. You find mistakes before they become bugs. You get early warning of design problems. You get immediate notification of side effect defects. You get to spend more time adding valuable features to your product.

Testing applications for mobile phones is difficult, time-consuming, and hard to do effectively. Many people have limited their testing efforts to hands-on testing of an application on a few physical handsets, and they have to repeat the process every time a new version of the software is ready to test. They may miss many of the permutations of real-world use, and as a consequence their users are left with the unpleasant mess of a failing application on their phone.

The groundbreaking book Design Driven Testing brings sanity back to the software development process by flipping around the concept of Test Driven Development (TDD)—restoring the concept of using testing to verify a design instead of pretending that unit tests are a replacement for design. Anyone who feels that TDD is “Too Damn Difficult” will appreciate this book.

This is the first start-to-finish, real-world guide to ATDD for every agile project participant. Leading agile consultant Ken Pugh begins with a dialogue among a customer, developer, and tester, explaining the “what, why, where, when, and how” of ATDD and illuminating the experience of participating in it.

Written by Microsoft insiders, this nuts-and-bolts guide walks you through the tools, guidelines, and methodologies you'll need for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Visual Studio 2010. It focuses on practical implementation techniques and best practices, while providing you with detailed code samples and case studies.

Testing IT provides a complete, off-the-shelf software testing process framework for any testing practitioner who is looking to research, implement, roll out, adopt, and maintain a software testing process. It covers all aspects of testing for software developed or modified in-house, modified or extended legacy systems, and software developed by a third party.

A Fortune 500 manufacturing company spent millions attempting to implement a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Across the globe, a 150-employee marketing firm built and tried to implement a proprietary customer relationship management (CRM) system. For two very different companies doing two very different things, the outcomes were identical. In each case, the organization failed to activate and utilize its system as initially conceived by senior management.

Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it's a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good ideas.

In Exploratory Software Testing, renowned software testing expert James Whittaker reveals the real causes of today's most serious, well-hidden software bugs—and introduces powerful new "exploratory" techniques for finding and correcting them.

In Implementing Automated Software Testing, three leading experts explain AST in detail, systematically reviewing its components, capabilities, and limitations. Drawing on their experience deploying AST in both defense and commercial industry, they walk you through the entire implementation process—identifying best practices, crucial success factors, and key pitfalls along with solutions for avoiding them.

The book focuses on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) implementations, and helps you to successfully implement packaged software. Using a step-by-step approach, it begins with an assessment of the limitations of current implementation methods for packaged software. It then helps you to analyze your requirements and offers 10 must-know principles gleaned from real-world packaged software implementations.

Designed for an introductory software engineering course or as a reference for programmers, this up to date text uses both theory and applications to design reliable, error-free software. Starting with an introduction to the various types of software, the book moves through life-cycle models, software specifications, testing techniques, computer-aided software engineering and writing effective source code.

Automated software testing has become a critical exercise, especially for developers utilizing iterative and agile methods. However, to achieve the full benefits of automated testing, teams need a deep understanding of both its principles and their testing tools. If you're among the thousands of developers using IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT), this book brings together all the insight, examples, and real-world solutions you need to succeed.

With insights direct from Microsoft s own development teams and across the software-development life cycle learn best practices for writing solid, well-formed, efficient code. Ideal for new to intermediate level developers, but with fresh insights for more experienced programmers, SOLID CODE will help improve your coding techniques at each phase of product development: design, prototyping, implementation, debugging, and testing.

Some systems are more difficult to test than others. Software testers contend with undefined or partially defined requirements; outdated, incomplete, or nonexistent documentation; complex logic; a mixture of languages; or worse. All of these factors make a system dirty, or virtually untestable.

IT organizations have achieved outstanding technological maturity, but many have been slower to adopt world-class business practices. This book provides IT and business executives with methods to achieve greater business discipline throughout IT, collaborate more effectively, sharpen focus on the customer, and drive greater value from IT investment.

The IBM SOA Foundation Suite is an integrated, open-standards-based set of software, best practices, and patterns that help you systematically maximize the business value of SOA. Understanding IBM SOA Foundation Suite brings together 26 hands-on tutorials that will help you master IBM SOA Foundation and apply it successfully in your organization.

This book teaches test managers what they need to know to achieve advanced skills in test estimation, test planning, test monitoring, and test control. Readers will learn how to define the overall testing goals and strategies for the systems being tested.

Learn the code cracker's malicious mindset, so you can find worn-size holes in the software you are designing, testing, and building. Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance takes a weapon from the black-hat arsenal to give you a powerful new tool to build secure, high-quality software. This practical resource helps you add extra protection without adding expense or time to already tight schedules and budgets.

Discover how Microsoft implements and manages the software-testing process company-wide with guidance and insights direct from its test managers. Organizing any testing program the people, processes, and tools can be challenging and resource intensive. Even when the necessary tradeoffs are made, no development team can test every scenario.

The book is not about advanced testing theory. It shows practical solutions, based on implementation experience. The book addresses fundamental questions around testing from a business perspective.

The newly revised and expanded edition of the bestseller, Practical Insight into CMMI® is an essential reference for engineering, IT and management professionals striving to grasp the "look and feel of a successful business oriented process improvement implementation".

The multicore revolution has reached the deployment stage in embedded systems ranging from small ultramobile devices to large telecommunication servers. The transition from single to multicore processors, motivated by the need to increase performance while conserving power, has placed great responsibility on the shoulders of software engineers. In this new embedded multicore era, the toughest task is the development of code to support more sophisticated systems.

One of the first comprehensive guides to testing every phase of software development and revision.

The third edition of this bestseller provides a comprehensive look at software testing as part of the project management process, emphasizing testing and quality goals early on in development. Building on the success of previous editions, the text explains how compliance testing helps an IT organization meet Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II requirements. The sections on test effort estimation are fully updated, providing greater emphasis on testing metrics.

The competence and quality of software testers are often judged by the various testing techniques they have mastered. As the name suggests, the book provides a self-study format and is designed for certification course review and for freshers as well as professionals who are searching for opportunities in the software testing field.

The service-oriented approach has become more and more popular, now allowing highly integrated and yet heterogeneous applications. Web services are the natural evolution of conventional middleware technologies to support Web-based and enterprise-level integration.

Software testing is traditionally seen as a difficult and time consuming activity that is hard to embed in the software development process. This book provides a different view. It explains to stakeholders how testing can add value to software development and doing business, and provides the tester with practical information.

This little book sets out some fundamental principles of testing in the form of Test Axioms. The Axioms are context neutral so in principle, they are universal. The book provides a set of context-free questions for each Axiom that can help you to both define a test strategy and assess and improve your own or others' test practices.

This book by the author of the best-selling Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach is unique in its application of software engineering principles to building effective web-based systems and applications. This book is designed to provide students with a solid understanding of a pragmatic process for engineering Web-based applications. It is written in an informal, conversational style, using a question and answer format to mentor the reader in this new engineering discipline.

The author is a true test enthusiast who has spoken to several thousand people about testing. The book is the result from many years of teaching test design with the goal of creating a highly useful test book. It is full of examples from the real world and contains exercises for most of the techniques described. It can be used as class-material or for self studies.

Fuzzing is the first and only book to cover fuzzing from start to finish, bringing disciplined best practices to a technique that has traditionally been implemented informally. The authors begin by reviewing how fuzzing works and outlining its crucial advantages over other security testing methods.

This book is about systematic, model-driven test processes in the context of UML. As UML provides only limited means for the design and development of test artifacts, a consortium was formed by the Object Management Group to develop a UML profile for model-driven testing--the UML Testing Profile.

Patterns for Performance and Operability is filled with practical, hands-on software development and testing techniques to ensure customers enjoy properly running software rather than complain about bugs and system crashes.

Practical Software Estimation brings together today's most valuable tips, techniques, and best practices for accurately estimating software project costs and schedules. Authored by one of the field's leading experts, it addresses the full spectrum of real-world challenges you face in developing reliable estimates.

The NIST estimates that poor testing costs the US economy $60 billion annually. This book gives teams straightforward and proven ways to introduce unit testing into their process, resulting in higher quality and fewer bugs.

Within the last 18 months more than 40,000 people worldwide have taken the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Foundations Level exam, 10,000 alone in the last 4 months. So, where can all these people go to learn what they need to know in order to pass the exam? Now they can go to Software Testing Foundations 2nd Edition, from Rocky Nook's new Computing division.

Software Testing: Principles and Practices is a comprehensive treatise on software testing. It provides a pragmatic view of testing, addressing emerging areas like extreme testing and ad hoc testing.

"Testing SAP R/3: A Manager's Step-by-Step Guide" shows how to implement a disciplined, efficient, and proven approach for testing SAP R/3 correctly from the beginning of the SAP implementation through post-production support. The book also shows SAP professionals how to efficiently provide testing coverage for all SAP objects before they are moved into a production environment.

How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this far. This book shows the way.

Aimed at the working test manager or test engineer, the second edition of William Perry's Effective Methods for Software Testing is one of the most rigorous guides to software testing available. This book provides the latest in standards for measuring how good your organization's commitment to software testing is and many ways to improve it.

Web Services are an integral part of next generation Web applications. The development and use of these services is growing at an incredible rate, and so too are the security issues surrounding them. Hacking Web Services is a practical guide for understanding Web services security and assessment methodologies. Written for intermediate-to-advanced security professionals and developers, the book provides an in-depth look at new concepts and tools used for Web services security.

Rigorously test and improve the security of all your Web software!

It’s as certain as death and taxes: hackers will mercilessly attack your Web sites, applications, and services. If you're vulnerable, you'd better discover these attacks yourself, before the black hats do. Now, there’s a definitive, hands-on guide to security-testing any Web-based software: How to Break Web Software.

Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing: A Practitioner's Guide fills a void and provides an integrated approach and guidelines to performance testing of Web-based systems. It applies a practical approach to making appropriate choices of tools, methodologies and project management for performance testing.

The promise of Software Factories is to streamline and automate software development-and thus to produce higher-quality software more efficiently. The key idea is to promote systematic reuse at all levels and exploit economies of scope, which translates into concrete savings in planning, development, and maintenance efforts. However, the theory behind Software Factories can be overwhelming, because it spans many disciplines of software development.

Often referred to as the "black art" because of its complexity and uncertainty, software estimation is not as hard or mysterious as people think. However, the art of how to create effective cost and schedule estimates has not been very well publicized. While the average software organization can struggle with project costs that run double their original estimates, some of the more sophisticated organizations achieve results with estimation errors as low as 5-10%.

Software Testing: An ISEB Foundation is an introduction to the breadth of trestinf activities used in real life projects. It explains the basic steps of th etesting process, how to perform effective tests, and provides an overview of avaiable techniques and tools and how to apply them.

The Reverse Detective is an easy-to-read, breakthrough book that shows you how to prevent software failure by using the same disciplined, step-by-step process used by professional detectives to solve crimes.

There's just one difference: You put the traditional Sherlock Holmes approach in reverse.

The result? Instead of solving the crime of software failure, you prevent it by precisely determining and modeling the right requirements before you begin writing code.

How do we ensure that our Web sites actually give users what they need? What are the best ways to understand our users' goals, behaviors, and attitudes, and then turn that understanding into business results? Personas bring user research to life and make it actionable, ensuring we're making the right decisions based on the right information. This practical guide explains how to create and use personas to make your site more successful.

Open Source is NOT JUST FOR LINUX/UNIX! Open source is changing the software market because of its advantages over commercial tools including cost savings, greater reliability, security, improved performance, and scalability. Although open source is primarily associated with Linux, many people, including IT professionals, don''t realize that open source programs can work on a standard Windows platform.

"I've just finished reading the best computer book [Why Software Sucks...] since I last re-read one of mine and I wanted to pass along the good word . . . Put this one on your must-have list if you have software, love software, hate programmers, or even ARE a programmer, because Mr. Platt (who teaches programming) has set out to puncture the bloated egos of all those who think that just because they can write a program, they can make it easy to use . . .

The Fit open source testing framework brings unprecedented agility to the entire development process. Unlike previous testing tools, Fit fully addresses the business value of software, not just technical quality. Using it, software customers, developers, and testers can clarify what software should do, compare that to what it does do, and systematically address the differences.

Many programmers code by instinct, relying on convenient habits or a "style" they picked up early on. They aren't conscious of all the choices they make, like how they format their source, the names they use for variables, or the kinds of loops they use. They're focused entirely on problems they're solving, solutions they're creating, and algorithms they're implementing. So they write code in the way that seems natural, that happens intuitively, and that feels good.

Learn how to improve your Java coding skills using unit testing. Despite it's name, unit testing is really a coding technique, not a testing technique. This book shows how to write tests, but more importantly, goes where other books fear to tread and gives you concrete advice and examples of what to test. Discover the tricky hiding places where bugs breed, and how to catch them using the freely available Junit framework.

Most software-development groups have embarrassing records: By some accounts, more than half of all software projects are significantly late and over budget, and nearly a quarter of them are cancelled without ever being completed. Although developers recognize that unrealistic schedules, inadequate resources, and unstable requirements are often to blame for such failures, few know how to solve these problems.

In software development, projects are won or lost during the endgame--that final stage between release for testing and release to customers.

Software Endgames presents realistic strategies for delivering working software to your customers. Focusing solely on the endgame, the book provides hard-won, hands-on practices you can implement right away.

This text offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to software quality engineering. By following the author's clear guidance, readers learn how to master the techniques to produce high-quality, reliable software, regardless of the software system's level of complexity.

"Software Testing, 2nd 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.

"The Art of Project Management" covers it all--from practical methods for making sure work gets done right and on time, to the mindset that can make you a great leader motivating your team to do their best. Reading this was like reading the blueprint for how the best projects are managed at Microsoft... I wish we always put these lessons into action!" --Joe Belfiore, General Manager, E-home Division, Microsoft Corporation

The Rational Unified Process is a powerful tool for improving software development--but it doesn't go nearly far enough. Today's development organizations need to extend RUP to cover the entire IT lifecycle, including the cross-project and enterprise issues it largely ignores. The Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) does precisely that, enabling you to deliver systems that meet all the needs of today's businesses.

In today's market, secure software is a must for consumers. Many developers, however, are not familiar with the techniques needed to produce secure code or detect existing vulnerabilities. The Software Vulnerability Guide helps developers and testers better understand the underlying security flaws in software and provides an easy-to-use reference for security bugs. Most of these bugs (and the viruses, worms, and exploits that derive from them) start out as programmer mistakes.

A Web site design that does not consider its user is a Web site that is destined to be a disappointing experience for the user. This new book by Jonathan Lazar provides readers with the concepts and tools needed to develop Web sites that maximize the user experience. It takes readers through the entire User-Centered Development Life Cycle, demonstrating practical skills and techniques that will help them for years to come.

The User-Centered Development Life Cycle:

Testing is not a phase. Software developers should not simply throw software over the wall to test engineers when the developers have finished coding. A coordinated program of peer reviews and testing not only supplements a good software development process, it supports it.

A good testing life cycle begins during the requirements elucidation phase of software development, and concludes when the product is ready to install or ship following a successful system test.

Did you know that the U.S. loses $59.5 billion per year due to inadequate software testing? With this revolutionary book, that's about to end! Applied Software Test Automation teaches you how to build a fully automated testing tool that you can immediately use for your software development projects. Simply feed the software under test, get the test result, and fix the bugs. You can even use your preferred languages for developing the testing tool.

Fifty exercises to help you find bugs faster—with less aggravation! Bug hunting is an art, and you need to be a master. Get "Find the Bug," and you'll become one. Long-time Microsoft programmer Adam Barr presents fifty programs, each with exactly one bug. Your assignment: find it. As you do, Barr will teach you how to "think like your processor"...anticipating exactly how code will behave, even without running it.

Testing experts Thomas, Young, Brown, and Glover present a brief introduction to design patterns and then walk you through each of the essential types of tests that comprise a complete software test plan to use on Java applications.

Model driven architecture (MDA) is a framework based on UML and other industry standards for visualizing and exchanging software designs and models to build large, complex enterprise systems. The Dutch authors of this book outline the MDA development life cycle, explain the role of transformation of models in MDA, and demonstrate how a simple platform independent model is transformed into complex platform specific models and code

Based on the needs of software professionals, "Practical Software Testing" takes a unique approach to teaching readers how to effectively plan for testing, design test cases, test at multiple levels, organize a testing team, and optimize use of testing tools. It introduces testing concepts that are managerial-, technical-, and process-oriented, using the Testing Maturity Model (TMM) as a framework.

Features:

Ultimately, software development is about creating value yet, all too often, software fails to deliver the business value customers need. This book will help you change that, by linking software development directly to value creation. You'll learn exactly how to identify which features add value and which don't, and refocus your entire development process on delivering more value, more rapidly.

Software by Numbers shows you how to:

Learn the Secrets of Mainframe Testers! Reliability and continuous availability have become crucial for computer software in the information economy. Well-publicized failures from both industry and government have underscored the need for mission-critical software to be thoroughly tested before being released into the marketplace. When it comes to industrial-strength reliability, no computer system is more renowned than the mainframe.

Learn how to apply the concepts and techniques of Test-Driven Development (TDD) to writing software for Microsoft .NET. Two experts in agile software development teach-using a wealth of pragmatic examples in C+ and other .NET development tools - how to use automated tests to drive lean, efficient coding and better design.

Total-quality philosophy is an approach to doing business that focuses all of the resources of the organization on the continual improvement of both quality and competitiveness. To this end, a total-quality organization will continually, improve its processes, people, and products. This approach is an effective way and, arguably, the only way to survive and prosper in a globally competitive environment.

"Rex Black has done it again!...Critical Testing Processes is a book that all software testers will want to read from cover to cover and then retain for frequent reference." From the Foreword by Rick Craig, software test manager, author, lecturer, and consultant

JUnit in Action shows you how to benefit from this strategy using the popular open source testing framework, JUnit. It is a no fluff discussion of unit testing techniques and best practices. It gives examples of tough situations such as how to unit test EJBs, database applications, JSPs and Taglibs. It discusses unit testing of J2EE applications, and shows how to test in automated builds.

The set of exercises offers insights and practice in applying principles for improving the design of existing computer code. Readers are expected to be practicing programmers or graduate and upper-level undergraduate students who have already been exposed to the principles themselves.

Select Perspective, from Select Business Solutions, is a set of best practices for software development that has evolved over a decade into a world-class component-based development (CBD) process. It is a blend of approaches from several object-oriented methods, improved and adapted to meet the new demands of CBD and Web Services.

This book presents the authors' distilled wisdom and best practice for the construction of software systems using Select Perspective.

A software tester’s survival guide from a leading expert in the field.

Presenting the state-of-the-art in component-based software testing, this new, cutting-edge resource offers you an in-depth understanding of the current issues, challenges, needs, and solutions in this critical component-based testing and quality assurance in an accessible tutorial format, making the material easy to comprehend and benefit from no matter what your professional level.

"The Bug" is a mesmerizing first novel about a demonic, elusive computer bug and the havoc it wreaks on the lives of the people around it. This rare combination: a novel of ideas and a suspense, it is a story about obsession and love that takes readers deep into both the personal and virtual life. In 1984, at the dawn of the personal-computer era, Roberta Walton, a novice software tester at a SiliconValley start-up, stumbles across a bug.

Software testing is indispensable and is one of the most discussed topics in software development today. Many companies address this issue by assigning a dedicated software testing phase towards the end of their development cycle. However, quality cannot be tested into a buggy application. Early and continuous unit testing has been shown to be crucial for high quality software and low defect rates.

(From the Back Cover) Effective Software Testing explores fifty critically important best practices, pitfalls, and solutions. Gleaned from the author's extensive practical experience, these concrete items will enable quality assurance professionals and test managers to immediately enhance their understanding and skills, avoid costly mistakes, and implement a state-of-the-art testing program.

"How to Break Software" is a departure from conventional testing in which testers prepare a written test plan and then use it as a script when testing the software. The testing techniques in this book are as flexible as conventional testing is rigid. And flexibility is needed in software projects in which requirements can change, bugs can become features and schedule pressures often force plans to be reassessed.

Every J2EE application is unique and it is difficult, if not impossible, to extrapolate performance results from one application to another. So, in this book we provide a load generating tool and a simple, adaptable methodology that will help you obtain detailed performance data for your own applications.

From the Publisher: Performance tuning is increasingly important as desktop applications move to a Web-centric, software-as-a-service model. Performance analysis and tuning ensures that .NET-based applications perform as well as or better than traditional desktop applications.

Project management for today's complex, chaotic business environments.

* Innovative new XPM tools: how to make them work in your organization
* XPM: the first radically new approach to project management in decades!
* Designed from the ground up for today's high-speed, fast-changing projects
* Refocusing project management focused on people, relationships, and adding value!

From the Back Cover: The process of designing and building today's dynamic Web applications comes with a host of challenges not typically solved by traditional project management methodologies. A wealth of practical resources, Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches is a book of solutions for designing, managing, and delivering virtually any type of Web-based project under even the most challenging of conditions.

This hands-on guide for business, project, and test managers and test practitioners presents an effective approach to using risk to construct test strategies for e-business systems. Using an easily learned risk-analysis technique, it teaches professionals how to employ risk in selecting and prioritizing test methods for e-business projects. This innovative resource explains how to select test techniques to address business risks and integrate them into a coherent test process.

Most IT systems fail to meet expectations. They don't meet business goals and don't support users efficiently. Why? Because the requirements didn't address the right issues. Writing a good requirements specification doesn't take more time. This book shows how it's done -- many times faster and many times smarter.

The TMap Test Management approach is based on years of practical software testing experiences and developed by the R&D department of IQUIP Informatica B.V. It enjoyed an overwhelming interest from its first publication in Dutch in 1995. Many companies and government departments arranged their organization and performed their test processes as much as possible according to TMap. Within a few years, it became the standard for software testing within the Dutch-speaking countries.

When faced with a complex programming challenge, rare is the developer who can readily see how to begin or produce its solution. More often than not, such projects generate a great deal of stress and bad code. To garner the strength and courage needed to surmount seemingly Herculean tasks, programmers should look to test-driven development (TDD), a proven set of techniques that encourage simple designs and test suites that inspire confidence.

The rapid rise in popularity of Extreme Programming (XP) has put the practice of software testing squarely in the spotlight of application development. At one time, testing was a neglected practice, a highly specialized activity that came as an afterthought as complex, code-intensive projects were rushed to completion. But in today's world of escalating quality expectations, testing is a key component of the development process.

Everything you need to know about VMware Workstation, from guest systems to network configuration. VMware software lets users run multiple operating systems (and their applications) simultaneously on one computer. Technically reviewed and developed in cooperation with VMware, Inc., The Book of VMware is a comprehensive guide to installing and running VMware. It includes sections on device emulation, configuring guest operating systems, networking, and troubleshooting.

From the Foreword by William C. Boni, Chief Information Security Officer, Motorola: "Both novice and seasoned readers will come away with an increased understanding of how Web hacking occurs and enhanced skill at developing defenses against such Web attacks. Technologies covered include Web languages and protocols, Web and database servers, payment systems and shopping carts, and critical vulnerabilities associated with URLs.

A Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software focuses on the real-world issues that arise in planning and implementing effective testing for object-oriented and component-based software development. It shows how testing object-oriented software differs from testing procedural software and highlights the unique challenges and opportunities inherent in object-oriented software testing.

This annual, high-level market summary report discusses the state of the market for load testing tools and related services in distributed environments, inclusive of remote/hosted load testing services for the year 2000. This report provides forecasts and market trends as well as highlights market share in distributed environments and its largest subsegment, Web or IP-based environments.

This guide enables readers to understand and apply the TestFrame method —an open method developed by the authors and their colleagues that is rapidly becoming a standard in the testing industry.

Practical Software Measurement (PSM) is a process for designing and implementing a project-based software measurement program. PSM provides essential information on scheduling, resource allocation, and technological performance. It enables software managers and developers to make decisions that will affect the project’s outcome positively. This book is the official, definitive guide to PSM written by the leaders of the PSM development initiative.

An in-depth look at the pressing issues involved in protecting an e-business from external threats while safeguarding customer privacy. With billions of dollars at stake in e-commerce, companies are becoming much more concerned about security and privacy issues. Hackers have made headlines by breaking into Web sites that aggregate sensitive information about all of us, which has caused growing public concern about personal and financial privacy.

This introduction to software engineering and practice addresses both procedural and object-oriented development. The book applies concepts consistently to two common examples—a typical information system and a real-time system. It combines theory with real, practical applications by providing an abundance of case studies and examples from the current literature. Expanded coverage of object-oriented development — a programming perspective being implemented by many companies.

In this blistering attack on one of the sacred cows of business today, John Seddon shows how the ISO standards are not only failing to deliver the improved quality they promise, but in most cases are actually damaging the companies that have implemented them.

This is the last in a four-book series comprising a critical review of the Unified Process that includes a survey of the alternate software processes and the synthesis of a more robust process. The Transition and Production phases are the final phases of the Unified Process that provide for the deployment, operation and support of the system among the user groups.

The only book that covers Visual Basic for software testing, a large and very critical industry. Most testers need to know some programming to enhance their job abilities; but the problem is that all of the trade books, textbooks, and courses are directed toward developers. Mary Sweeney's book responds to a huge unmet need.

With detailed scenarios, imaginative illustrations, and step-by-step instructions, consultant and speaker Norman L. Kerth guides readers through productive, empowering retrospectives of project performance. Whether your shop calls them postmortems or postpartums or something else, project retrospectives offer organizations a formal method for preserving the valuable lessons learned from the successes and failures of every project.

Scaling for E-Business presents analysis techniques for quantifying and projecting every element of your e-business site's performance -- and planning for the capacity you need, no matter what!

Software Configuration Management (SCM) is an essential software engineering discipline used to manage change in today's complex, fast-paced software development environment. SCM is used during all lifecycle phases and provides a structure for identifying and controlling changes to documentation, requirements, models, code, and Web artifacts such as HTML and XML files.

The new edition of this book provides a comprehensive discussion of software engineering techniques and shows how they can be applied in practical software projects. This book features new coverage of the software process and software process technology, system integration, requirements management, and risk analysis, as well as new chapters on pattern-based reuse, distributed system engineering, and legacy systems.

This pragmatic guide provides a testing framework for software professionals looking to improve product quality and to reduce timescales, effort, and cost. It covers all aspects of testing for software developed or modified in-house, modified or extended legacy systems, and software developed by a third party. The reader can customize the framework to match the particular testing requirements of any particular organization.

Verification and Validation of Modern Software-Intensive Systems brings the classic approaches up to date to apply them to contemporary computing methods. Based on the latest standards and research, the authors cover V&V for areas that have not been previously treated collectively, including:

The text illustrates how to introduce, manage, and use automated software testing on a project. The focus of the book is on the testing process and how to assimilate it into the group's use. It also helps program managers to understand how the tools can benefit projects in general and to understand which projects best lend themselves towards use of the tools. The book discusses ways to incorporate automated tools into structured development methodologies and the software lifecycle.

Now you can dramatically improve the design, performance, and manageability of object-oriented code without altering its interfaces or behavior. Refactoring shows
you exactly how to spot the best opportunities for refactoring and exactly how to do it-step by step. Through more than forty detailed case studies, you'll learn powerful - and surprisingly simple - ways to redesign code that is already in production.

Readers who have been working in IT for a long time will remember the days when testing was the task of the junior person on the team. Since then, testing has come a long way--to the point where it is recognized as a vital profession. This book addresses test-process improvement with a practice-based model.

More than ever, mission-critical and business-critical issues depend on object-oriented (OO) software. Testing techniques tailored to the unique challenges of OO technology are necessary to achieve high reliability and quality. This book is an authoritative guide to designing and automating test suites for OO applications. This comprensive book explains why testing must be model-based.

In this indispensable book, a widely experienced business consultant provides a complete set of analytical tools essential to successful trouble-shooting, effective planning, and making better decisions faster, more confidently, and more often.

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Software Project Management presents a new management framework uniquely suited to the complexities of modern software development. Walker Royce's pragmatic perspective exposes the shortcomings of many well-accepted management priorities and equips software professionals with state-of-the-art knowledge derived from his twenty years of successful from-the-trenches project management experience.

This book describes TMap, a testing methodology first used in the Netherlands and Belgium. The book is a short overview of testing in general and TMap in particular. As the preface says, it is meant to educate those who are not immediately linked to the test process such as users and students.

Written for researchers, professors, practitioners, students, and other computing professionals, this book covers: Basics that Work at Work, People, Process, and Product, Visibility, Configuration Management Process, Planning, Risk Management, Requirements, Design, Testing, Managing a Project Day by Day, Managing Software Maintenance, And more...

Web Performance Tuning hits the ground running and gives concrete advice for improving crippled Web performance right away. For anyone who has waited too long for a Web page to display or watched servers slow to a crawl, this book includes tips on tuning the server software, operating system, network, and the Web browser itself.

Cleanroom Software Engineering is a set of techniques and practices for the development of software-intensive systems. This book brings together concepts, lessons learned and best practices resulting from Cleanroom projects surveyed in the past several years. Pub: 12/96.

This book covers all phases of the life of a safety-critical system from its conception and specification, through to its certification, installation, service, and decommissioning. It provides information on how to assess the safety implications of projects and determine the measures necessary to develop systems to meet safety needs.

Millions of dollars are wasted and many managers' jobs are put on the line when computer systems do not live up to their expected performance, or fail outright. Concentrating on management skills and the tools needed for analysis and control, this book helps managers learn from others' mistakes to help prevent failure in their own companies.

The book has been substantially rewritten and redesigned to account for the fast-changing developments in software metrics--most notably their widespread penetration into industry practice.

All sections are updated. There are new sections on process maturity and measurement, goal-question-metric, metrics plans, experimentation, empirical studies, object-oriented metrics, and metrics tools. This book provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to software metrics.

This book is in reference format. It is an excellent guide for developers, testers, and managers to look up terms in an easy-to-use format. It contains definitions of software quality terms as well as statistical data from research studies.

Focused on practical solutions rather than theory, this book provides models of written processes for software development and inspection along with outlines of several software-related documents. The book is a practical reference for software quality professionals, project managers, and engineers who are responsible for quality assurance. The book can be used as a basic text for introductory undergraduate courses.

This paperback book describes the authors' top challenges of software testing and illustrates the tactics testers can use to avoid "lose-lose" situations. Each challenge is outlined with an overview, state of the practice, impact on testing, solutions to the challenge, guidelines for success and a plan of action. The summary chapter is a plan of action to improve testing, followed by four pages of resources.

With his first software novel, Tom DeMarco delivers a highly entertaining and subtly educational book all about project management. The plot centers around Mr. Tompkins, a downsized project manager who is kidnapped and whisked away to the fantasy Republic of Morovia. There, he is asked to manage a huge staff of developers to deliver six software products with impossible deadlines. Using different size teams and different methods, Mr.

This book discusses the types of tools used in software quality assessment; the various problems developers typically run into; the benefits of an organized unit testing plan; system testing; and using the supplied tools on disk.

This hands-on, user-friendly reference introduces a unique, Deming-related approach to attaining ISO 9000 registration through a proven method: TAP PDSA (Train, Audit, Plan and Plan, Do, Study, Act). The book takes the reader sequentially from the beginning of a registration effort to life after registration.

This is a short book intended to present elements of software quality systems. Correctly called a primer, it depicts and discusses multiple areas that need to be understood by Information Technology specialists and managers. The appendices, most of them IEEE Standards, point out the usefulness of IEEE work and documents in the standards and quality-assurance areas.

This book shows how applying risk management to each stage of the software engineering model can help the entire development process run on time and on budget. Starting with a concise overview of quality software, it identifies the potential threats associated with software development, explains how to establish an effective risk-management program, and details the six critical steps involved in applying the process.

Our lives and the quality of our lives are increasingly dependent on the cost, reliability, and availability of software. Improving the process of software development is therefore vitally important to us all.

Visual Test is a tool that allows one to automate the testing of a product that runs under Windows 95 and Windows NT. This book discusses Visual Test and how to use it to develop and launch quality products successfully. Visual Test will emulate user actions, reproduce steps, do compatibility testing and benchmarking, and is completely customizable. Learn the pitfalls to avoid when automating a project and give an estimation of time necessary to automate a product.

This book is a classic high-level management theoretical text. Its contents strongly concentrate on management styles such as TQM (Total Quality Management) and QFD (Quality Function Deployment). Its subject matter lacks the practical descriptions of test procedures such as White Box testing, Black Box testing, Integration, etc.

This book explains the principles behind behavioral testing in general and behind the most important black-box testing techniques in use today, that is, testing a system based on its desired behavior or function and for conformance to its specifications. The book provides fully worked examples and leads the reader step-by-step from specifications to finished test cases.

We are building systems today--and using computers to control them—which have the potential for large-scale destruction of life and environment. More than ever, software engineers and system developers, as well as their managers, must understand the issues and develop the skills needed to anticipate and prevent accidents before they occur. Professionals should not require a catastrophe to happen before taking action.

This book provides a throrough overview of the entire software-development process, from initial specification to final testing. The individual components are described in a cohesive manner such that, if these guidelines are adhered to, the product will be accurate, maintainable, and well documented. The book is ideal for a college-level computer science course. It is also ideal for a software manager who is starting a new project and is in a position to enforce these policies.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of current software quality assurance and metrics in practice in industry, with contributions from around the world. The book discusses themes that are influencing current practice and international standards. The book moves from a presentation of measurement framework, to methods and tools, to research case studies of QA and metrics.

This is a practical book that shows software developers how to comply with the International Standards Organization's (ISO) quality standard and how to use it as a catalyst for improved quality throughout the development process. It addresses issues of quality, management, and control in the software development industry. It shows software developers how to come to terms with ISO 9001 and how to use it specifically in the development process.

This book on systems management discusses important concerns for the development of systems from the perspective of information technology, information systems, and software systems engineering. It focuses on the systems management of processes for information technology and software development organizations.

This book provides a description and technical overview of the CMM, along with guidelines for improving software process management in general. It is a sequel to Watts Humphrey's work Managing the Software Process in that it structures the maturity framework presented in that book more formally.

Large software systems need to be carefully tracked. This book gives the methods and theories needed to set up checks and balances for a software system. Due to the tremendous amount of code, complex software systems need to be carefully monitored to ensure they run efficiently when they are completed.

Although described as a case history on implementing concurrent engineering, this book is essentially a textbook of the classic principles and techniques of Total Quality Management. By extension through TQM's emphasis on improving processes, the book also addresses related topics. They include process reengineering, the seven basic and seven advanced quality problem-solving tools, and team building.

This book is volume three in a four-volume set. The book outlines how to produce high-quality software through high-quality managers.

Topics include:

Software configuration management is the most effective management and communication tool in existence for understanding and following processes which occur during the evolution of a product or system. The book is a guidebook for the software practitioner and is intended to serve the software developer as a tool for accomplishing a specific task. The book discusses the four main task or identification, change control, configuration, auditing and reporting.

The author (from Telecom Australia) describes particular tools, usability testing, and evaluation procedures. Most of these have been derived from behavioral and social science, but have been updated specifically to the human-computer interaction environment. Numerous examples show how and when the tools can be used most effectively.

This book shows software professionals how to achieve high-quality software through inspection. It shows how to do a formal review of documents to find errors, giving effective statistical process improvement. Properly run inspections cut development costs, bringing with them higher productivity, better defect tracking, and improved documentation.

This authoritative handbook draws together into a single, comprehensive volume the proven software testing principles, standards, and approaches that can be applied in MIS applications development. Practical and technical in perspective--yet accessible in approach (even to those without a technical background)--it demonstrates how to plan software testing activities in specific situations relating to MIS projects.

This book is volume one in a four-volume set. It focuses on the theme that high-quality software demands high-quality management. Weinberg tackles the first requirement for developing quality software: learning to think correctly about problems, solutions, and quality itself.

This book is the first volume in a two-volume set. It consists of a collection of papers surveying the important software metrics developed over the past twenty years and addresses the question of validity.

This book contains tutorial material oriented toward assisting practitioners of metrics. It also contains summaries of some of the better practices and applications of metrics for a number of companies and projects in the US and Europe. The book is derived from the PYRAMID Best Practices guide.

This book examines some of the difficulties associated wth testing large systems (defined as 3 million LOC and up), but is also useful for developers and testers of smaller systems. Topics include testing methodology, documentation, metrics, and management.

From the foreword by Tom Peters: "This is a remarkable tale. IBM had an amazing success with its AS/400 mid-range family of computers. So? The 'so' is revolution and transformation—fast, no less. Disarray is too kind a word for IBM's position in the growing important mid-range computer business in 1986. Competitors were attacking from every point on the compass. IBM Rochester didn't even know how to measure market share.

The title of this book does not do it justice. It
does, indeed, discuss requirements, prototyping,
and software creation; but it also addresses risk
management, the process of change, the psychology
of software development, and more. The book is
very readable and thoroughly enjoyable.

This is the best book available on the special topic of performance analysis. Jain has a considerable base of industry experience to draw on as he discusses modeling, simulation, and analysis methods for a variety of systems including networks, database management systems, and distributed systems. The book assumes substantial statistical background from the reader and can be pretty tough to plow through. It includes a good case study from Digital Equipment Corporation.

This comprehensive book incorporates the perspective of the IEEE standards (Hollocker chaired the effort that produced the ANSI/lEEE Standard for Software Reviews and Audits). The book has fresh material with good coverage of software audits and an emphasis on the use of audits for what Hollocker refers to as a "controlled process evolution." The human side of reviews is not emphasized. The book’s 130-page appendix contains sample checklists, forms, and report documents.

The book focuses on two processes that the author refers to as "technical planning" and "quality planning." They are designed to lead the manager through a technical assessment of the problem to be solved and to proceed from that to the formulation of a traditional resource plan.

A guide to the methods, techniques, and tools for testing computer applications under a structured methodology. It discusses what to test, how to do it, and when.

Although this book is more than seven years old, most of the principles and concepts continue to be just as true today. The book covers many aspects of software verification and validation with the primary emphasis on testing. It contains an overview of test methods and tools, including sample reports and templates. It is especially useful when used for viewing testing from a management perspective and for discussing many of the associated management issues.

More system development efforts fail due to poorly defined user requirements than any other cause. This book examines each facet of this critical activity and delineates a plan to systematically specify user-centered requirements. The book includes detailed discussion on three basic types of analysis: objective analysis, functional analysis, and data analysis.

The third in a series in software engineering, here is a timely and integrated approach designed to enhance productivity and assure quality software. Explores the development process in its entirety, from methodologies of development to the flow of work and responsibility within a project, to management controls needed to monitor and direct the process.

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Software testing and software configuration management are usually thought of as two distinct functions within the software engineering discipline, but without good configuration management, the software testing effort frequently flounders. In this book, Babich clearly spells out the most common problems in configuration management and offers some down-to-earth solutions.

A comprehensive guide that shows you how to create and maintain reliable, robust, high-quality software. Using nontechnical, easy-to-understand language, the book runs the gamut from unit testing to system testing. Quality assurance checklists guide you.

Stressing the basic but often ignored management concept of maximum efficiency and zero defects, the author details easy-to-implement programs and actual case histories designed to benefit the small businessman, the middle manager, and the supervisor, as well as the giant corporation.

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