Effective and Efficient Software Testing

by Rex Black

Effective and Efficient Software Testing is published exclusively by Rex Black Consulting Services, Inc. Testing even a simple system is a potentially infinite task. With tight budgets and schedules, testers need practical techniques, hands-on experience, and the right strategies to effectively and efficiently test software--and this book delivers. Through a sequence of thorough, practical, and well-explained chapters, you'll learn skills like risk analysis, selecting test strategies, nine essential behavioral (black box) test design techniques, three useful structural (white box) test design techniques, approaches for unit and integration testing, using your intuition, experience, and knowledge to explore and attack the system, and how to make all your hard work serves the needs of the project. This book includes eleven complete chapters of exercises with detailed solutions. By the end of this book, you will be ready to put these ideas into action on your next test project.

314 pages, Paperback

First published April 20, 2006