- ISBN13: 9780470404157
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New edition of one of the most influential books on managing software and hardware testing In this new edition of his top-selling book, Rex Black walks you through the steps necessary to manage rigorous testing programs of hardware and software. The preeminent expert in his field, Mr. Black draws upon years of experience as president of both the International and American Software Testing Qualifications boards to offer this extensive resource of all the standards… More >>
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#1 by Anonymous on April 22, 2010 - 11:04 am
The author has an innate knowledge of surrealistic holography that transcends the space time continuum. Bottom line: he has no clue.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Ronald Wilson on April 22, 2010 - 11:08 am
This book does not go well with the class, I would suggest to any university that is using this book for IT 645 class, to find a different author.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on April 22, 2010 - 11:50 am
In theory, practice works 100% of the time. In practice, theory do not always works . This book has the “proven testing theory and testing practice”
I do recommend it highly!
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on April 22, 2010 - 2:12 pm
Just bought it! … Read it! Great compilation of testing procedures.
In theory, the practice of all testing procedures works. In practice, not all testing theories work. This book works in theory and practice!
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Stephan Wiesner on April 22, 2010 - 3:56 pm
Black keeps on stating, that he has a lot of practical experience. The book is supposed to help me in my daily business as a (for me) testmanager. Well, it did not.
1) I can not take him serious (watching him give a presentation is fun and interesting, though), when he proposes to manage testcases in Excel. Of course I tried that (didn’t we all try that once?), in fact have seen it on several projects. It failed every single time. You need a database system for even medium sized projects. I actually found it very helpful to use a bugzilla like system to manage them.
2) He describes a bug tracking system. That might have been necessary a few years ago, but today there is Bugzilla (or Jira, or the like). They are cheap, very flexible and developed from a need. On the World Congress for Computer Quality in Munich (2005) I talked to several vendors of such testcase tracking systems. They were quite expensive and none could provide me some of the feautures possible with Bugzilla. Oh, they had all kinds of fancy wizards and automatic equivalent classes generators and the like. Too bad, that I never missed those things, might be because time is the single most contraining factor for me and my team.
So, the book gives a good theoretical overview. It is easy to read and beginners will certainly learn something from it. If you have any background book on testing and have some experience in testing, don’t bother.
Rating: 3 / 5