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My favorite testing books? Last year I did a poll and asked many (context-driven) testers what their most popular books are. The list can be found on my blog: popular books for testers.
What you should be reading depends on what you are ready to learn about next, and that varies from person to person.
My personal list is:
Lessons Learned in Software Testing – Cem Kaner, James Bach, Brett Petticord
Perfect Software and other Illusions about Software Testing – Gerald M. Weinberg
The Little Black Book on Test Design – Rikard Edgren
How to Break Software – James A. Whittaker
Explore It! – Elisabeth Hendrickson
A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design – Lee Copeland
Testing Computer Software – Cem Kaner, Jack Falk, Hung Q. Nguyen
Beautiful Testing – Tim Riley & Adam Goucher
How to reduce the cost of software testing – Matthew Heusser and Govind Kulkarni
Domain Testing Workbook – Cem Kaner, Sowmya Padmanabhan, Doug Hoffman
Foundations of Software Testing: A BBST Workbook –> still to be read, course is awesome. Book must be good 😀“Non-testing” books
a testereverybody in IT should read:
Thinking fast and slow – Daniel Kahneman
Tacit and Explicit Knowledge – Harry Collins
The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An introduction to general systems thinking – Gerald M Weinberg
Quality Software Management Vol. 1-4 – Gerald M. Weinberg
Secrets of Consulting – Gerald M. Weinberg
The Leprechauns of Software Engineering – Laurent BossavitIn addition to Huib (In Holland we say, he mowed the lawn before my feet away) I just read (again) the tester’s pocketbook” of Paul Gerrard. This little book also starts you think: how can I of how am I doing my job as tester. This perpective is always a good starting point for learning and retrospective on what you are doing.
Has anyone read anything that they would add to this list from 2014?
I see the most popular software testing book on Amazon for 2014 was Peter Kim’s The Hacker Guide: Practical Guide to Penetration Testing
A few books about BDD were popular as well , this one by John Smart in particular.
I thought this was a nice resource.
A list of freely available software testing books.
I am currently reading Gerald M. Weinberg’s ‘Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing’
The book is fabulous. It’s definitely empowering software testers to promote their workI am currently reading Gerald M. Weinberg’s ‘Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing’
The book is fabulous. It’s definitely empowering software testers to promote their workThat’s always been mentioned by people when I ask about testing books they recommend.
I have these old books on my shelf. I can post them to anyone in Ireland if they pay the postage (c. 8 euro each) (or hand them over at the next SoftTest event on Aug 18 featuring Mark Fewster )
Black-Box Testing, Boris Beizer, 1995
Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement, Lewis, 2000
Lessons Learned in Software Testing, Kaner+Bach+Pettichord, 2001
Software testing, a guide to the TMap Approach, Pol+Teunissen+Veenendaal, 2002The first book i’ve read about software testing is: Lessons Learned in Software Testing (Cem Kaner, James Bach, Brett Petticord). My passion about testing originates since then! 🙂
I have these old books on my shelf. I can post them to anyone in Ireland if they pay the postage (c. 8 euro each) (or hand them over at the next SoftTest event on Aug 18 featuring Mark Fewster )
Black-Box Testing, Boris Beizer, 1995
Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement, Lewis, 2000
Lessons Learned in Software Testing, Kaner+Bach+Pettichord, 2001
Software testing, a guide to the TMap Approach, Pol+Teunissen+Veenendaal, 2002That’s a very generous offer Patrick. We might take you up on your offer for the Book Club that will be happening at the EuroSTAR Conference this year.
My absolute favourite book has not been mentioned.
“Software Testing Techniques” by Boris Beizer
I studied this book.
It took me a few months but I went through this several times. I worked through every exercise.
I raised a defect with Mister Beizer and he pointed out I was wrong, I had not spotted a flaw in the exercise.
I learned tonnes with this book.
I have read it several times.
I own two copies.
Alan
I would suggest the 2 Crispin, Gregory books if you are interested in agile testing
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I can definitely recommend the series “50 quick ideas…“, books you can return to again and again.
- “50 quick ideas to improve your user stories” by Gojko Adzic and David Evans
- “50 quick ideas to improve your tests” by Gojko Adzic and David Evans
- “50 quick ideas to improve your retrospectives” by Tom Roden and Ben Williams
“How Google Tests Software” by James Whittaker, Jason, Arbon and Jeff Carallo – Direct and informative
“Continuous Delivery” by Jez Humble and David Farley. Gives good insight when moving towards Test Ops.
The Art of Software Testing – by Glenford Myers is a book that I have started reading recently and I seems to be pretty good
I like this blog.
https://geteasyqa.com/blog/
They do not have few articles, but they are really useful.I am replying in my experience. I have learned course in zenrays, they provide me free course material and video tutorial. really it was useful for me. read tutorialpoint useful. http://zenrays.com/testing-courses
I love “What if” from Munroe because it reflects what testers are or should be: People looking at things from all perspectives even if it sounds weird. It is an eye-opener and a brain activator. Take those questions as a challenge and see where you go.
“How many Lego bricks would it take to build a bridge capable of carrying traffic from London to New York? Have that many Lego bricks been manufactured? – Jerry Petersen”
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