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The Art of Software Testing (Business Data Processing) (Hardcover)

by Glenford J. Myers (Author) "Before beginning the book, it is strongly recommended that you take the following short test ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (2 May 1979)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0471043281
ISBN-13: 978-0471043287
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Provides a practical rather than theoretical discussion of the purpose and nature of software testing. Emphasizes methodologies for the design of effective test cases. Comprehensively covers psychological and economic principles, managerial aspects of testing, test tools, high–order testing, code inspections, and debugging. Extensive bibliography. Programmers at all levels, and programming students, will find this reference work indispensible.

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Practical, up–to–date tactics and techniques for successful, efficient testing:

Basic testing principles and strategies
Program inspections and walkthroughs
Code inspections
Error checklists
Peer ratings
Black– and white–box testing
Error guessing
Top–down vs. bottom–up testing
Higher–order testing
Function and system testing
Acceptance testing
Installation testing
Module (unit) testing
Test planning and control
Independent testing agencies
Debugging principles
Error analysis
Extreme Testing
Testing Internet applications
Higher–order testing of e–commerce architectures

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A standard reference in software testing., 4 Dec 1998

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Like all standard references, one can argue that the book is dated. In details perhaps yes, though my professional experience indicates that a 25 year old book still defines a higher level of software testing than the current state of the practice.

The first 75 pages lay out the basic approaches to software testing and make for easy technical reading. More detailed graph theory follows and helps take the reader to a more rigorous approach.

Please feel free to contact me for more detailed insght and opinions.

Doug Claflin; President - Maritime Design

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1.0 out of 5 stars Overpriced and disappointing, 21 Aug 2006

By	Paul Floyd (Grenoble France) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent in parts, but expensive, 12 Aug 2007

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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.

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