The Art of Software Testing
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Author: Glenford J. Myers
List Price: $150.00
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ISBN: 0471043281
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (20 February, 1979)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 49,700
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Old book -- don't waste your money
This small book is full of generalities. You can learn everything that is in this book by simply surfing the web.
Rating: 5 out of 5
"Must Have" Reference in Every Software Tester's Library
This is by far the most concise and insightful book I've ever read about code level testing. It does not have all the nitty gritty details of every which method ever invented, nor does go into details about the paperwork. But the lists of principles and checklists are priceless. I would not recommend this book for beginners since it is hard for inexperienced testers to pick out the gems from the dated items. I agree with a previous review that stated that the first hundred or so pages are must reads. Don't be put off by the $ per page ratio. This book is worth every penny.
Rating: 5 out of 5
A classic that is still useful
......... this is probably not the first book that you would buy about software testing.However, the book is a classic and it deserves a place on a serious tester's bookshelf. Its examples are dated, I think its description of cause-effect graphing is incomprehensible, and its catalog of test types in the pages from 103 forward is sketchy. The book is valuable because its presentation of the basic issues is clear, concise, and persuasive. The discussion of equivalence classes and boundaries is remarkably clear. When we wrote Testing Computer Software, one of our goals was to handle this important topic as clearly and crisply as Myers. That was a challenge, and I'm not sure we succeeded. (Jorgensen's Software Testing: A Craftsman's Approach does a great job with this topic.) The discussion of bias (one of the issues in the psychology of testing) is also well done. In short, the first 103 pages of the book are some of the best writing in the field and have had a powerful influence on the writers who came later. Reading them in the original will often, I suspect, make subsequent presentations clearer and more meaningful. -- Cem Kaner (senior author: Testing Computer Software)
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