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How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Addison Wesley; Pap/Cdr edition (21 Jun 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0201796198
  • ISBN-13: 978-0201796193
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 234,755 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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. Software testing is not such an exact science that one can determine what to test in advance and then execute the plan and be done with it. Instead of a plan, intelligence, insight, experience and a "nose for where the bugs are hiding" should guide testers. This book helps testers develop this insight. The techniques presented in this book not only allow testers to go off-script, they encourage them to do so. Don't blindly follow a document that may be out of date and that was written before the product was even testable. Instead, use your head! Open your eyes! Think a little, test a little and then think a little more. This book does teach planning, but in an "on- the-fly while you are testing" way. It also encourages automation with many repetitive and complex tasks that require good tools (one such tool is shipped with this book on the companion CD). However, tools are never used as a replacement for intelligence. Testers do the thinking and use tools to collect data and help them explore applications more efficiently and effectively.



About the Author

James A. Whittaker is a well-known speaker and consultant, as well as seasoned professor.


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3.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile read for software testers and developers, 17 Dec 2002
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There are very few books on software testing - or even few comprehensive testing related sections of other more general programming books. Whittaker's book is a very practical guide and all too short! It's valuable to developers as well as testers (ignoring whether or not that distinction really ought to exist!) in that it explains what areas are likely to be exploitable by testers - ie, where code will break.

Quite readable and useful, if possibly commonsense in the main. The appendices were unnecessary padding though - a wider look at testing in general (rather than just "breaking") would have been a better use of the space. (Appendix C did include a bit of that but, as a reprint of an IEEE paper, it wasn't as accessible as the rest of the book.)

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