The Craft of Software Testing

by Brian Marick

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1995

About the author

Brian Marick first learned to program in 1976, using the Tutor language. He has since done real programming in C, Common Lisp, Java, Ruby, Clojure, Elixir, and Elm. Much of his career, though, has been spent consulting, first on software testing, then–after he lucked into being one of the authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development–on testing and programming on Agile teams. He's written four books, three of which you can still buy: The Craft of Software Testing (horribly out of date), Everyday Scripting with Ruby, and Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer (almost entirely about dynamically-typed functional languages). He's currently trying to make a modest living writing webapps for schools of veterinary medicine, deliberately using advanced languages and techniques so that he has real-world examples to use in books, training, and consulting.