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Training Reading List

The following reading list was drawn up based upon that provided by ISTQB / BCS for candidates on the ISTQB Certified Tester : Foundation / Advanced Level and BCS Intermediate Certificates in Software Testing. In each of the categories, the books are shown in descending publication date. This list in not intended as a collective endorsement of individual books in any way. We have reviewed several of the books below, to access the reviews click on the books with hyperlinks. The list is split into the following sections:

General Testing
Web Testing
Test Management
Reviews and Inspections
Test Automation
Others
Websites

General Testing Books

Brian Hambling, Peter Morgan, Angelina Samaroo and Geoff Thompson, Software Testing, An ISTQB-ISEB Foundation Guide, BCS Publishing, Second Edition, 2010

Marnie Hutcheson, ‘Software Testing Fundamentals‘ Wiley, April 2003

Erik van Veenendaal, ‘The Testing Practitioner‘ UTN Publishers, Sept 2002

Lee Copeland, ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design’ Artech House, 2004

Paul Gerrard and Neil Thompson, ‘Risk-based e-business Testing‘ Artech House, 2002

Louise Tamres, ‘Introducing Software Testing’ Pearson Education, 2002

Cem Kaner, James Bach and Bret Pettichord, ‘Lessons Learned in Software Testing‘ Wiley, 2002

Martin Pol, Ruud Teunissen and Erik Van Veenendaal, ‘Software Testing: a guide to the TMap approach’ Addison Wesley, 2002

Rick D. Craig and Stefan P. Jaskiel, ‘Systematic Software Testing’ Artech House, 2002

Ron Patton, ‘Software Testing’ Sams Publishing, 2001

John Watkins, Testing IT: an off-the-shelf testing process’ Cambridge University Press, 2001

William E. Perry, ‘Effective Methods for Software Testing’ Wiley, 2000

Robert V. Binder, ‘Testing Object-Oriented Systems’ Addison Wesley, 1999

William E. Perry and Randall W. Rice, ‘Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing’ Dorset House, 1997

Ed Kit, ‘Software Testing in the Real World‘ Addison Wesley, 1995

Brian Marick, ‘The Craft of Software Testing’ Prentice-Hall, 1995

Boris Beizer, ‘Black Box Testing’ Wiley, 1995

Paul Jorgensen, ‘Software Testing: a craftsman’s approach’ CRC Press, 1995

Mark Roper ‘Software Testing’ McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1994

Cem Kaner, Jack Falk and Hung Quoc Nguyen, ‘Testing Computer Software’ Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993

Boris Beizer, ‘Software Testing Techniques’ Wiley, 1990

M A Ould and C Unwin (eds) Testing in Software Development British Computer Society Monographs in Informatics series by Cambridge University, 1986

Bill Hetzel, ‘The Complete Guide to Software Testing’ Collins, 1985

Glenford Myers, The Art of Software Testing Wiley Interscience, 1979

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Web Testing Books

Dirk Meyerhoff (ed.), ‘Software Quality and Software Testing in Internet Times’ Spinger Verlag, 2002

Steven Splaine and Stefan P. Jaskiel, ‘The Web Testing Handbook’ STQE Publishing, 2001

Diane Stottlemyer, ‘Automated Web Testing Toolkit’ Wiley, 2001

Hung Quoc Nguyen, ‘Testing Applications on the Web’ Wiley, 2000

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Test Management Books

Rex Black, ‘Critical Testing Processes‘ August 2003

Rex Black, ‘Managing the Testing Process’ Microsoft Press, 1999

Tim Koomen and Martin Pol, ‘Test Process Improvement (TPI)’ Addison Wesley, 1999

Martin Pol and Erik van Veenendaal, ‘Structured Testing of Information Systems: an introduction to TMap’ Kluwer, 1998

T C Royer, ‘Software Testing Management’ Prentice Hall, 1993

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Reviews and Inspection

Karl Wiegers, ‘Peer Reviews in Software’ Addison Wesley, 2002

Ronald A. Radice, ‘High Quality Low Cost Software Inspections’ Paradoxicon Publishing, 2002

David A Wheeler, Bill Brykczynski and Riginald N. Meeson, Jr., ‘Software Inspection: An Industry Best Practice’ IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996

Tom Gilb and Dorothy Graham, Software Inspection Addison Wesley, 1993

Daniel P. Freedman and Gerald M. Weinberg, ‘Handbook of Walkthroughs, Inspections, and Technical Reviews’ Little, Brown, 1988

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Test Automation

Mark Fewster and Dorothy Graham Experiences of Test Automation : Case Studies of Software Test Automation, Addison Wesley, 2011

Hans Buwalda, Dennis Janssen and Iris Pinkster, ‘Integrated Test Design and Automation’ Addison Wesley, 2001

Mark Fewster and Dorothy Graham ‘Software Test Automation‘ Addison Wesley, 1999

Elfriede Dustin, Jeff Rashaka and John Paul Automated Software Testing Addison Wesley, 1999

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Others

Lisa Crispin and Tip House , ‘Testing Extreme Programming (XP Series)’ Addison Wesley, 2002

Kent Beck, ‘Test Driven Development’ Addison Wesley, 2002

Peter Zadrozny, ‘J2EE Performance Testing’ Expert Press, 2002

Alan Cooper, ‘The Inmates are Running the Asylum‘ SAMS, 1999

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Web Sites

British Computer Society : The Chartered Institute for IT, Software Testing pages : http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/29910. Responsible for the training provider accreditation, setting of public exam dates, training syllabi for Software Testing training courses and other subject areas (Project Management, IT Service management, etc).

International Software Testing Quality Board (ISTQB) – Responsible for setting the syllabi and exams for the ISTQB Certification courses in Software Testing.

Sticky Minds is a wonderful source of articles, and news items. Some of the test consultants referred to on the e-testing list of web links regularly write short articles available on this site. There are useful search-by-category facilities. http://www.stickyminds.com/

Testing Standard Working Party of the British Computer Society’s SIGiST. Responsible for BS 7925-1, and BS 7925-2, and currently working on standards for non functional testing. http://www.testingstandards.co.uk/