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Training – Reading List The following reading list was drawn up based upon that provided by ISEB for candidates on the ISEB Foundation / Practitioner 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 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 approch' 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 To Top 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 To Top 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 To Top 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 To Top Test Automation 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 To Top 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 To Top Web Sites British Computer Society http://www.bcs.org/BCS/ ISEB (The Information Systems Examination Board, the examination arm of the British Computer Society). Responsible for the syllabus, setting of exam dates, etc. of the ISEB exams in Software Testing and other subject areas (Project Management, IT Service management, etc). http://www.bcs.org/iseb 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/ Software Testing Hotlist (edited by Brett Pettichord). Does not seem to have been updated for some time, but has a wealth of material. http://www.io.com/~wazmo/qa 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/ To Top
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