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  • April 30, 2014 at 2:18 pm #1531

    Emma
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    What are the top Software Testing books you would recommend, in what order and why?
    April 30, 2014 at 4:29 pm #1532

    Huib
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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 tester everybody 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 Bossavit
    May 2, 2014 at 12:02 pm #1553

    Ard
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    In 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.
    March 5, 2015 at 2:54 pm #7060

    Ronan
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    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.
    June 24, 2016 at 1:58 pm #12574

    Ronan
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    I thought this was a nice resource.

    A list of freely available software testing books.

    Here is the list.
    June 29, 2016 at 10:57 am #12627

    Andrei Domuta
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    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 work
    July 13, 2016 at 4:07 pm #13005

    Ronan
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    Andrei Domuta wrote:

    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 work

    That’s always been mentioned by people when I ask about testing books they recommend.
    July 13, 2016 at 5:29 pm #13006

    Patrick
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    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, 2002
    July 13, 2016 at 6:08 pm #13007

    Gabriela
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    The 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! 🙂
    July 20, 2016 at 8:19 am #13082

    Ronan
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    Patrick wrote:

    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, 2002

    That’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.
    July 21, 2016 at 9:53 pm #13143

    alan
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    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
    October 16, 2016 at 6:03 pm #13978

    Archana
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    Lessons Learned in Software Testing is one of my favorites too
    October 19, 2016 at 10:23 am #14001

    Augusto
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    I would suggest the 2 Crispin, Gregory books if you are interested in agile testing

    Agile testing

    More Agile Testing
    October 27, 2016 at 1:50 pm #14112

    Jan
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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.

     
    April 9, 2017 at 5:08 pm #15933

    Archana
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    The Art of Software Testing – by Glenford Myers is a book that I have started reading recently and I seems to be pretty good
    July 11, 2017 at 9:28 am #16694

    Yevheniia Jane
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    I like this blog.
    https://geteasyqa.com/blog/
    They do not have few articles, but they are really useful.
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