Dear Evil Tester

by Alan J. Richardson

Are you in charge of your own testing? Do you have the advice you need to advance your test approach?

"Dear Evil Tester" contains advice about testing that you won't hear anywhere else.

"Dear Evil Tester" is a three pronged publication designed to:

-provoke not placate,
-make you react rather than relax,
-help you laugh not languish.

Starting gently with the laugh out loud Agony Uncle answers originally published in 'The Testing Planet'. "Dear Evil Tester" then provides new answers, to never before published questions, that will hit your beliefs where they change. Before presenting you with essays that will help you unleash your own inner Evil Tester.

With advice on automating, communication, talking at conferences, psychotherapy for testers, exploratory testing, tools, technical testing, and more. Dear Evil Tester randomly samples the Software Testing stomping ground before walking all over it.

"Dear Evil Tester" is a revolutionary testing book for the mind which shows you an alternative approach to testing built on responsibility, control and laughter.



Read what our early reviewers had to say:

- "Wonderful stuff there. Real deep."

Rob Sabourin, @RobertASabourin
Author of "I Am a Bug"



- "The more you know about software testing, the more you will find to amuse you."

Dot Graham, @dorothygraham
Author of "Experiences of Test Automation"



- "laugh-out-loud episodes"

Paul Gerrard, @paul_gerrard
Author of "The Tester's Pocketbook"


- "A great read for every Tester."

Andy Glover, @cartoontester
Author of "Cartoon Tester"

Genres: Nonfiction

162 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 16, 2016

Reviews

[Johnny · Rating 2 out of 5]

Partly funny and partly too much of a rant.

[jvickery88 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like this book because it encourages the reader to think outside the box, or at least at a deeper level than the question/answer itself. Essentially it's some nice testing advice (not every answer has a lesson in it) wrapped in some humour at just about the right length too.

[Isac Samil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not a technical book, more like a collection of anecdotes and good advice.If you want some technical Alan J. Richardson has a few books and tutorials that might be more of your liking.

[Jonas · Rating 1 out of 5]

Really depends on your expectations. I come from a technical background and I was expecting some methods or mindsets to learn but was disappointed with the actual content.

[Viktor Slavchev · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not an ordinary book, do not expect to pick it up and get an introduction to software testing. It will definitely be helpful to anyone, but not for totally fresh people coming in testing. It gets better the more you know about testing and more models you have against which you could apply the contents of this book.
It has a great, dark sense of humor and many practical advises that any tester might apply in his/her philosophy about testing.