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by William E. Lewis (Author) "In Webster's Dictionary, quality is defined as "the essential character of something, an inherent or distinguishing character, degree or grade of excellence ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 656 pages
  • Publisher: Auerbach Publishers Inc.; 2 edition (21 April 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0849398339
  • ISBN-13: 978-0849398339
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.3 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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This book helps accelerate the development of high quality software using continuous process improvement. The book starts with an overview of basic quality principles and how you can apply the continuous improvement cycle to software testing. It then reviews waterfall life cycle testing, followed by an extensive RAD testing methodology for client/server and the internet. The final section provides a comprehensive analysis of modern testing tools.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Badly Written, 26 April 2001
I am affaid that I have to disagree..and say that I found it badly organised, unreadable certainly in some places and just very difficult to find anything useful. Vertually complete sentences were repeated a number of times in different chapters and the text on some pages (for example pages 160 and 161) contained very basic grammar errors making it incomprehensible.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Too general, maybe suitable for management only, 30 Mar 2009
By E. N. Rodriguez Suazo (Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement (Hardcover)
Techniques for software testing are appendixes. The whole book is about a specific methodology to implanting the Deming circle (Act, PLan, Do, Check) to software QA. Not bad, but not what I was looking for and some Chapters are way too short and general...
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1.0 out of 5 stars The worst textbook I have ever purchased, 10 Jun 2008
By Talal Al-Tamimi (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement (Hardcover)

The material is very scattered and incoherent, and it is incredibly repetitive. Virtually complete paragraphs are repeated at different points throughout the book. The book reads more like a poorly written report than a textbook. In fact, like a report, the book is composed of "sections" and "parts", where a section corresponds to what would normally be a part in a regular textbook, and a part corresponds to what you would normally call a chapter.

The author devotes an entire chapter (sorry, "part") to discussing software testing in a spiral development environment, yet makes no mention of agile development methodologies or test-driven development. For a book that was published as recently as 2005, this is an unacceptable omission.

The book's index is anemic. The index entries under the letter 'I' include "In God we trust" (a reference to an irrelevant comment in the introduction) but makes no mention of "Integration Testing". In a book about software testing, this is absolutely ridiculous.

The level of detail in the book is also very inconsistent. Take the appendices as an example. Most of the appendices are less than a single page in length. There is one illustrative example of a software program that is used repeatedly throughout many of the appendices. The program is a primitive little example sketched out in about a dozen lines of pseudocode. You won't find any real-world source code in this book. Then, you have appendix G11, which includes a detailed introduction to relational databases for the absolute beginner. This was a very sudden and drastic change of pace, from glossing over all technical details and forgoing any discussion of real-world technologies, into a full-fledged tutorial.

For an example of the kind of meaningless drivel you'll read in Lewis' book, take a look at this paragraph from page 253:

"Of the various activities in the project plan, planning and execution are the key activities that determine the cost of resources and schedules required for the testing projects. During these two crucial phases of testing, various key deliverables are estimated. This will ensure that the test team will have a focused approach and the delivery of the deliverables will come to a logical end so that the project can proceed with the next task in the plan."

If this makes any sense to you at all, then I congratulate you for mastering the fine art of semantic and syntactic redundancy while delivering virtually no value to the reader. A bright career in consulting awaits you.
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