Software testing in the real world: improving the process

1995 ACM Press. 268 pages. ISBN: 0-201-87756-2<div class="bb-sep"></div>Software Testing in the Real World provides the reader with a tool-box for effectively improving the software testing process. The book contains many testing techniques and guidance for creating a strategy for continuous, sustainable improvement within the organization - whatever its size or level of process maturity.<div class="bb-sep"></div><strong>Contents:</strong><br/>PART I<br/>The six essentials of software testing<br/>The state of the art and the state of the practice<br/>The clean-sheet approach to getting started<br/>PART II<br/>Establishing a practical perspective<br/>Critical choices: what, when, and how to test<br/>Critical disciplines: frameworks for testing<br/>PART III<br/>Verification testing<br/>Validation testing<br/>Controlling validation costs<br/>Testing tasks, deliverables, and chronology<br/>Software testing tools<br/>Measurement<br/>PART IV<br/>Organizational approaches to testing<br/>Current practices, trends, challenges<br/>Getting sustainable gains in place<br/>APPENDICES