Advanced Software Testing: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification As an Advanced Test Manager

by Rex Black

This book teaches test managers what they need to know to achieve advanced skills in test estimation, test planning, test monitoring, and test control. Readers will learn how to define the overall testing goals and strategies for the systems being tested. This hands-on, exercise-rich book provides experience with planning, scheduling, and tracking these tasks. You'll be able to describe and organize the necessary activities as well as learn to select, acquire, and assign adequate resources for testing tasks. Learn how to form, organize, and lead testing teams Master the organizing of communication among the members of the testing teams, and between the testing teams and all the other stakeholders. Additionally, you'll learn how to justify decisions and provide adequate reporting information where applicable.Target Software Testers, Programmers, System Designers, IT Managers

547 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Mohamed Faisal · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book for those who want to pass the manager's exam
i passed from the first time only by reading this book

[Monika · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great exam prep-book. And not at all boring (which cannot be said about some other ISTQB CTAL prep-books).

[Giovani Facchini · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book covers thoroughly the topics for ISTQB exam. I liked the way the author expand on the topics with his on the job experience providing scenarios that help to understand the concepts behind it.

[Goodreads2mailinator.Com · Rating 4 out of 5]

Advanced Software Testing - Vol. 2, 2nd Edition: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager, Edition 2

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book as it helped me pass my exam. Normally textbooks are dry but this was written in an insightful and friendly way.

[Sri Satya]

currently started reading..yet to go long way

[Lorraine Mei · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rex provides insight of the software testing industry with his rich experience on consulting. Very practical book to refer to often wit the role of test manager

[Reno Belmont · Rating 5 out of 5]

a must have for all QAs

[Péter Szatmári · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't like the book, because it's clearly not usable to prepare for the exam. It covers the syllabus' topics, but does not concentrate to the material enough. It's nothing about the tricky questions or the important points of the material I need to know. It's about the author's stories, experience and advertises of his company. It's OK, now I see that he is a leading specialist of the area, and he has all the rights to market his company and services, but the book is just unusable to be prepared for the exam.

For example if there are four methods to improve the testing process, the author details only that one which was written by him, and only mentiones a little the others. For the exam I would need the details about all of them, all the key points and the differences - not the author's opinion about which was useful to him in his projects.

So I appreciate his knowledge, but disappointed, because it's more about him, not about the exam.

[Riccardo · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is specifically designed for personal self-study and provides all the necessary information required to pass the Certified Tester Advanced Level exam as defined by the ISTQB.
In my opinion, however, it must be used together with the ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus.
The book is worth buying mainly for the sample exam questions"

[Oleksandr Molodetskyi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book, lots of live examples, clear language. I do not completely agree with author concerning agile and exploratory testing, but in general he provides really good and useful ideas. This book looks like very useful to prepare for istqb advanced test manager exam, i would recommend it for everyone who prepares for this certification

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[Kevin]

I also passed the exam by studying it :-)

[Hitarth Mehta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very Helpful book

[Arkadiusz Frankowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is foundamental book to read before taking ISTQB Advanced TM exam.

[Mihai Rosca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most of the books on this topic are filled with nothing but theory and it's really refreshing to actually find a book that has real life examples. The fact that Rex Black comes with examples from his own experience and the experience of his own firm puts things into a better perspective.
Now, in case you are wondering about the fact that it might contain the author biases, that's true, it does. But it's under no circumstances something troublesome nor does it take from the book's final purpose, which is to educate the reader in the ISTQB methods regarding test management.
I know that the people who are supposed to read this should already have some testing experience and should already be familiar with many concepts here, but I can't shake the felling that between the exercises in the book and the theory, even more guidelines should be squeezed in order to make this an even more fluent experience for the reader. Other than that, hats off!