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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (14 Jul 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0471120944
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471120940
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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From a leading expositor of testing methods, a practical, comprehensive, hands–on guide to the state–of–the–art black–box testing techniques

This book fills a long–standing need in the software and general systems development communities to make the essential aspects of black–box testing available in one comprehensive work. Written by one of the world′s most respected figures in the field of testing, it is both a valuable working resource for independent testers and programmers and an excellent practical introduction for students. Dr. Boris Beizer clearly explains the principles behind behavioral testing in general and behind the most important black–box testing techniques in use today, which involve testing a system based on its desired behavior or function and for conformance to its specifications. Then, with fully worked examples, he leads you step–by–step from specifications to finished test cases.

Complete coverage of all important test techniquesæincluding those that apply to object–oriented software
∗ Up–to–dateæincluding the most recent breakthroughs in domain testing that now make this technique available to the working tester with no tools needed beyond a calculator or spreadsheet
∗ Examples based on the popular off–the–shelf tax preparation packages let you try the techniques on your favorite tax software
∗ Includes all necessary IRS tax forms
∗ Self–evaluation quizzes help you evaluate your understanding of the material


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From a leading expositor of testing methods, a practical, comprehensive, hands–on guide to the state–of–the–art black–box testing techniques

This book fills a long–standing need in the software and general systems development communities to make the essential aspects of black–box testing available in one comprehensive work. Written by one of the world′s most respected figures in the field of testing, it is both a valuable working resource for independent testers and programmers and an excellent practical introduction for students. Dr. Boris Beizer clearly explains the principles behind behavioral testing in general and behind the most important black–box testing techniques in use today, which involve testing a system based on its desired behavior or function and for conformance to its specifications. Then, with fully worked examples, he leads you step–by–step from specifications to finished test cases.

Complete coverage of all important test techniquesæincluding those that apply to object–oriented software
∗ Up–to–dateæincluding the most recent breakthroughs in domain testing that now make this technique available to the working tester with no tools needed beyond a calculator or spreadsheet
∗ Examples based on the popular off–the–shelf tax preparation packages let you try the techniques on your favorite tax software
∗ Includes all necessary IRS tax forms
∗ Self–evaluation quizzes help you evaluate your understanding of the material

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dry as a bone but vital for every functional testers library, 23 Nov 1999
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~Most testing books that I've read are strong on Management but tend to be rather wooly on describing precisely how you generate a test case. The tend to say that you should have a methodology for defining test cases in place but then skip over exactly how you do it.

This book sets out a clear example of how to define cases for a complex system. At times its badly written, confusing and has the most atrocious layout but underneath that is a model of elegant simplicity.

Heartily recomended

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid, but full of bugs, ironically enough, 11 Mar 1998
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I agree with the review above: It's a little dry. However, it is certainly thorough, and if you're willing to sit and work through the examples, it's extremely informative. Ironically, I found a number of errors in the examples. Guess he should have applied his own methodology...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Dry reading but it's worth the effort, 17 Sep 1999
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I applied the Finite-State Testing technique described in this book to a software component we had previously tested. We then uncovered more bugs, one of which was quite serious.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good book with a misleading title
Many people view black-box testing as testing in which test cases are derived from the specification of the *external* behaviour of the item under test (IUT). Read more
Published 17 months ago by Gareth Greenwood

2.0 out of 5 stars Very hard going..
Boris Beizer takes some very simple concepts and makes them incredibly complicated and difficult to digest. Read more
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