- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Edition edition (2 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471469122
- ISBN-13: 978-0471469124
- Product Dimensions: 15.8 x 2.5 x 23.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 807,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This long–awaited revision of a bestseller provides a practical discussion of the nature and aims of software testing. You′ll find the latest methodologies for the design of effective test cases, including information on psychological and economic principles, managerial aspects, test tools, high–order testing, code inspections, and debugging. Accessible, comprehensive, and always practical, this edition provides the key information you need to test successfully, whether a novice or a working programmer. Buy your copy today and end up with fewer bugs tomorrow.
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When this book was first published in 1979, software testing was far from an exact science. Considered the "dark art" of software development, it was a little–understood process without a set of standard principles.Twenty–five years later, testing hasn’t really changed–but The Art of Software Testing has.
In addition to all the major software testing topics–such as higher–order testing, white– and black–box testing, debugging, code inspections, and walkthroughs–this fully updated Second Edition features up–to–date information on testing twenty–first–century software projects, including vital Internet–based e–commerce applications, as well as details on Extreme Testing, which supports the widely used Extreme Programming development methodology.
Just like the first edition, this revision fills the gaps in the professional literature and provides a practical, rather than theoretical, discussion of the purpose, nature, and principles of proper testing. While the book focuses on methodologies for the design of effective test cases, it also covers the psychological and economic issues that are essential to a full understanding of program testing.
Many programming students enter the workforce without the proper understanding of software testing. This book covers all the essential topics for those students, but also provides all the detail and precision that working programmers might need during the testing phase. Appropriate for programmers and students at any level, The Art of Software Testing, Second Edition presents all the latest new ideas and techniques–many illustrated with helpful examples. Comprehensive and always practical, this essential guide includes code–inspection checklists, a self–assessment test, and other resources programmers need for effective testing–and fewer bugs.
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At the time this book was first published, in 1979, it was a well-known rule of thumb that in a typical programming project approximately 50 percent of the elapsed time and more than 50 percent of the total cost were expended in testing the program or system being developed. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent in parts, but expensive,
This review is from: The Art of Software Testing (Business Data Processing: A Wiley Series) (Hardcover)
For many years I've been looking for a book which emphasises just how much testing you really need to do to be thorough. Within the first two chapters, this book makes it clear that the usual policy of randomly throwing tests at a piece of software just isn't effective or efficient at finding bugs. The exercise which Myers sets you early on is worth the price of admission alone - you will be surprised at how badly you do!
Ignore the chapters tagged on the end by other authors as part of the reprint. Also ignore the fact (mentioned by other reviewers) that the examples aren't in fashionable programming languages. This book should scare you enough to change your attitude and approach to software testing. The advice and the message here have not aged at all.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book that should be on every testers shelf,
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This review is from: The Art of Software Testing (Business Data Processing: A Wiley Series) (Hardcover)
The Art of Software Testing is a great book for anyone that needs a clear explanation of some of the key principles of software testing. If you're looking for a solid explanation of black box or white box, Boundary Value Analysis or Equivalence Classes and similar topics then you'll find it here. There's a superb list of 10 Principles with clear narrative that if they were kept in mind would ensure testing effort and thinking was on track project after project.
In these two areas alone there's enough clear and complete information to make anyone sound like a test professional. In fact many so called test professionals don't know this stuff in my experience. Skip forward to sections such as the Test Case Design Strategy and you're getting step by step guidance that explains things well. Read over the explanation of Incremental testing, top-down and bottom-up and there's enough detail that it makes sense and feels you can take the knowledge and apply it. Many in our profession either don't really understand or certainly can't articulate this material, perhaps a read of this book would be advised! On the down side the section on Cause Effect Graphing is mind boggling. I have it book-marked off after a couple of concerted efforts to understand it. Even Kaner et al in referencing this book state this as `powerful but complex' in their book Testing Computer Software, p241. Add to that the insane price and my rating has to drop a star. Don't be shy about buying this book used, it's a must buy.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Overpriced and disappointing,
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This review is from: The Art of Software Testing (Business Data Processing: A Wiley Series) (Hardcover)
This book is enormously overpriced (admittedly I bought it from amazon.fr and paid close to the RRP for it). The content warrants a cheap paperback (10 or 15 pounds maximum). Ding! That knocks off 2 stars.
The writing/reasearch is lazy. It may have been classic stuff a few decades ago, but it isn't now. There's no excuse for including FORTRAN and PL/I in the examples. Ding! There goes another star. Clearly no research went into the chapter on debugging (see Zellers book on the subject for some decent research into various debugging tools that exist). This chapter is simply a waste of space. Ding! Only two stars left. The text is unpleasant to read. It felt like just about every page had a bullet list of some sort. Ding! Down to the last star. Chapters 8 and 9 (Extreme Testing and Testing Internet Applications) seem to have been tacked on to make the book a bit more fashionable. Again they are very skimpy and do not really add anything to the book. Not quite ding-worthy a fault. On the plus side, chapters 3 and 5 are reasonably good, and chapter 4 is very good. But it's just too little.
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