Ebook: Software testing in the real world: improving the process

1995 ACM Press. 268 pages. ISBN: 0-201-87756-2Software 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.Contents:
PART I
The six essentials of software testing
The state of the art and the state of the practice
The clean-sheet approach to getting started
PART II
Establishing a practical perspective
Critical choices: what, when, and how to test
Critical disciplines: frameworks for testing
PART III
Verification testing
Validation testing
Controlling validation costs
Testing tasks, deliverables, and chronology
Software testing tools
Measurement
PART IV
Organizational approaches to testing
Current practices, trends, challenges
Getting sustainable gains in place
APPENDICES