Research Catalog

Title

Software testing in the real world : improving the process / Edward Kit ; edited by Susannah Finzi.

Author

Kit, Edward.

Publication

Wokingham, England ; Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Finzi, Susannah.

Description

xiv, 252 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• 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.
• Ed Kit addresses the most frequently asked questions about methodologies, tools, technology, and organizational issues being posed in the testing community today. Pragmatic in its approach, the book confronts the problem of the relative immaturity of the software engineering discipline in most organizations with practical guidance on cost and risk, standards, planning, testing tasks, and testing tools.
• Test and Quality Assurance Specialists, Development and Project Managers, and Developers will benefit from the practical, proven techniques for improving the specific "best of breed" software testing tools information.

Subject

• Computer software > Testing

Note

• "ACM Press books."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-231) and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. The six essentials of software testing -- Ch. 2. The state of the art and the state of the practice -- Ch. 3. The clean-sheet approach to getting started -- Ch. 4. Establishing a practical perspective -- Ch. 5. Critical choices: what, when, and how to test -- Ch. 6. Critical disciplines: frameworks for testing -- Ch. 7. Verification testing -- Ch. 8. Validation testing -- Ch. 9. Controlling validation costs -- Ch. 10. Testing tasks, deliverables, and chronology -- Ch. 11. Software testing tools -- Ch. 12. Measurement -- Ch. 13. Organizational approaches to testing -- Ch. 14. Current practices, trends, challenges -- Ch. 15. Getting sustainable gains in place -- A Standards relevant to software engineering and testing -- B Verification checklists -- C Verification exercises -- D Validation exercises (solutions) -- F Sources: conferences, journals, newsletters, DOD specifications -- G Specific tools and tool selection --
• H Sample lists of improvements to be implemented.

ISBN

0201877562

LCCN

95037212

OCLC

• 33079642
• ocm33079642

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries