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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.
Learn how to analyze the system, taking into account the technical aspects and quality characteristics. Additionally, learn how to evaluate system requirements and designs as part of formal and informal reviews, using an understanding of the underlying technology. You will be able to analyze, design, implement, and execute tests, using risk considerations to determine the appropriate effort and priority for tests. You will also learn how to report on testing progress and provide necessary evidence to support your evaluations of system quality.
With a quarter-century of software and systems engineering experience, author Rex Black is President of RBCS; is a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing; and is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today. He published several books on testing that sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide. He is President of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) and is a Director of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB).
This book will help you prepare for the ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst exam. Included are sample exam questions, at the appropriate level of difficulty, for most of the learning objectives covered by the ISTQB Advanced Level syllabus. The ISTQB certification program is the leading software tester certification program in the world. With about 100,000 certificate holders and a global presence in 50 countries, you can be confident in the value and international stature that the Advanced Technical Test Analyst certificate can offer you.
Related books:
Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (ISBN 978-1-933952-19-2)
Vol. 2: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager (ISBN 978-1-933952-36-9)
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With a quarter-century of software and systems engineering experience, Rex Black is President of RBCS (www.rbcs-us.com), a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. For over a dozen years, RBCS has delivered services in consulting, outsourcing, and training for software and hardware testing. Employing the industry ™s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing; builds and improves testing groups; and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. Ranging from Fortune 20 companies to start-ups, RBCS ™s clients save time and money through improved product development, decreased tech support calls, improved corporate reputation, and more.
As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today. His popular first book, Managing the Testing Process, has sold over 30,000 copies around the world, including Japanese, Chinese, and Indian releases. His three other books on testing, Critical Testing Processes, Foundations of Software Testing, and Pragmatic Software Testing, have also sold tens of thousands of copies, including Hebrew, Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Russian editions. He has written over twenty-five articles, presented hundreds of papers, workshops, and seminars, and given about thirty keynote speeches at conferences and events around the world. Rex is the President of both the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) and the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB).
Jamie L Mitchell brings over 28 years of development and testing experience (both hardware and software). He is a pioneer in the test automation field, working with a variety of vendor and open-source test automation tools since the first Windows tools were released with Windows 3.0. He has also written test tools for several platforms.
His specialty is increasing the productivity of automation and test teams through innovative ideas and custom tool extensions. In addition, Mr. Mitchell also provides training, mentoring, process auditing, and expert technical support in all aspects of testing and automation.
Jamie is the former Lead Automation Engineer for American Express Distributed Integration Test/Worldwide, and has successfully designed and implemented test automation projects for many top companies including American Express, Mayo Clinic, IBM AS/400 division, ShowCase Corporation, and others. He spent time as the Director of the International Institute for Software Testing.
Jamie holds a Master of Computer Science degree from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PP, and he holds the Certified Software Test Engineer certification from QAI. Additionally, he was an instructor and board member of the International Institute of Software Testing (IIST), and a contributing editor, technical editor, and columnist for the Journal of Software Testing Professionals. He has been a frequent speaker on testing and automation at several international conferences, including STAR, QAI and PSQT.
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Unfortunately, the e-book version doesn't work and has a lot of failures. It's practically impossible to see the chapter four without having to reboot the kindle almost every page.
If you want to purchase this book choose the printed format.
While the book's main objective is to prepare the reader to pass the ISTQB-ATTA certification exam, the purpose of certification (and the book) is make better software testers. Advanced Software Testing Vol. 3 fulfills this purpose also. If you have no experience in structure-based testing (like me), this book presents control-flow and path testing with sufficient detail, examples, and exercises to enable you to start using these techniques. The book also does a great job of showing the reader how to apply all techniques to test non-functional software quality characteristics. It covers all the characteristics not covered in the Advanced Test Analyst book. The section on performance testing does a great job in presenting practical information, and pitfalls, on this difficult to test characteristic. And if you have ever considered using automation, you should definitely read the section on test tools. It distills many years of experience by both authors, and presents rational guidance on when and how to apply test automation tools; and when not to! The sections on static and dynamic analysis also provide a lot of guidance along with examples of tools you can use to apply these techniques. As with any technical volume, many of the subjects are covered in much more detail in other books. Advanced Software Testing Vol. 3 also includes many helpful footnotes and an extensive reference section that will point the reader to the works of other experts in the software-testing field for more detailed information.
(Full discloser - I was one of the reviewers for this book)
A test analyst must be aware of, and must communicate, risks. This book gives him/her a tool to identify risks in test coverage. In the TDD/BDD scenario above, testing the design would fall under pages 104 to 106 of this book (specification-based testing). This is out of 533 pages. The bulk of the other 530 pages are just as important to the success of the project and product. If testing is to be skipped, it should be skipped by first weighing the risks. This book provides a reference for providing that analysis.
Disclaimer: I reviewed portions of the book before printing.
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