Software Engineering Resources
	Software Testing Strategies Designing effective test cases (see Software Testing Techniques) is important, but so is the strategy you use to execute them. Should you develop a formal plan for your tests? Should you test the entire program as a whole or run tests only on a small part of it? Should you rerun tests you've already conducted as you add new components to a large system? When should you involve the customer? These and many other questions are answered when you develop a software testing strategy. The following topic categories are presented here: General Testing Resources The Software Testing Process Agile Testing Articles on Software Testing Books General Testing Resources Software Testing Resources - 1 A useful collection of important testing pointers. Software Testing Resources - 2 Extensive information on software testing and related quality issues has been assembled by Software Testing and Quality Engineering. Recommended. Software Testing Resources - 3 An excellent collection of on-line resources suggested by Bret Petticord. Recommended. Software Testing Resources - 4 An useful collection of on-line resources suggested by Ian Worrell include links, papers and documentation outlines. Quality Assurance Sites that Provide Testing Resources QALinks.com Software QA/Test Resource Center SQAtester.com STORM Software Testing Newsletter Useful information of software testing strategies is provided by the on-line Software Testing Newsletter published by the Software Testing Institute (STI). The Software Testing Process - Concepts, Principles, Strategies Software Testing Fundamentals Four Chapters of a book to be published by Wiley that address fundamental methods, fundamental metrics and test estimation and sizing. General Principles of Software Validation A voluminous report (prepared by the FDA) discusses all important strategic and tactical aspects of software validation. Classic Testing Mistakes A useful index prepared by Briam Marick. Recommended. Improving the Testing Process Techniques that will lead to an improved testing process. Software Testing Institute Comprehensive listing of resources that support the testing process. Bugnet BugNet tracks security problems and bugs in PC-based software. Agile Testing Agile Testing Roadmap How is testing used within XP and other agile process models? Agile Testing Resources Also contains a number of articles on agile testing. Agile Testing Articles Many useful articles compiled by Brian Marick. Articles on Software Testing Commentary on Software Testing Over 30 articles on softare testing compilerd by software-engineer.org. Agile Methods and Agile Testing A brief article by Brian Marick. "Mastering the Art of Test and Debug" A brief paper (and outline) by Chester Braun addresses testing and debugging issues. How to Test Requirements A useful paper written by Suzanne Robertson. "Testing - When Do I Stop" A paper by Waterman and Hyatt presented a metrics based approach for determinign when testing is complete. Testing Team Roles and Responsibilities An indepth article that defines the roles and responsibilities of each member of the testing team. Testing Articles by James Bach Bach, one of the most thoughtful writers on the subject, has started his own consulting company. Many of his articles are reprinted here. Recommended. Testing Articles by Cem Kaner kaner, another well-known writer on the subject of testing, has many worthwhile insights in the articles at his site. Is Testing Advancing or Stagnating? An article by Steve Whitchurch. Books Virtually every book on software testing discusses strategies along with methods for test case design. Craig and Kaskiel (Systematic Software Testing, Artech House, 2002), Tamres (Introducing Software Testing, Addison-Wesley, 2002), Whittaker (How to Break Software, Addison-Wesley, 2002), Jorgensen (Software Testing: A Craftman’s Approach, second edition, CRC Press, 2002), Splaine and his collegues (The Web Testing Handbook, Software Quality Engineering Publishing, 2001), Patton (Software Testing, Sams Publishing, 2000), Kaner and his colleagues (Testing Computer Software, second edition, Wiley, 1999) all discuss testing principles, concepts, strategies and methods. Books by Black (Managing the Testing Process, Microsoft Press, 1999) and Perry (Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing: A People-Oriented Approach, Dorset House, 1997) also address software testing strategies. For those readers with interest in agile software development methods, Crispin and House (Testing Extreme Programming, Addison-Wesley, 2002) and Beck (Test Driven Development: By Example, Addison-Wesley, 2002) present testing strategies and tactics for Extreme Programming. Kamer and his colleagues (Lessons Learned in Software Testing, Wiley, 2001) present a collection of over 300 pragmatic “lessons” (guidelines) that every software tester should learn. Watkins (Testing IT: An Off-the Shelf Testing Process, Cambridge University Press, 2001) establishes an effective testing framework for all types of developed and acquired software. Lewis (Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement, CRC Press, 2000) and Koomen and his colleagues (Test Process Improvement, Addison-Wesley, 1999) discuss strategies for continuously improving the testing process. Sykes and McGregor (Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 2001), Bashir and Goel (Testing Object-Oriented Software, Springer-Verlag, 2000), Binder (Testing Object-Oriented Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1999), Kung and his colleagues (Testing Object-Oriented Software, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1998), and Marick (The Craft of Software Testing, Prentice-Hall, 1997) present strategies and methods for testing OO systems. Guidelines for debugging are contained in a books by Agans (Debugging: The Nine Indispensible Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Hardware and Software Problems, AMACON, 2002), Tells and Hsieh (The Science of Debugging, The Coreolis Group, 2001)Robbins (Debugging Applications, Microsoft Press, 2000), and Dunn (Software Defect Removal, McGraw-Hill, 1984). Rosenberg (How Debuggers Work, Wiley, 1996) addresses the technology for debugging tools. Younessi (Object-Oriented Defect Management of Software, Prentice-Hall, 2002) presents techniques for managing defects that are encountered in object-oriented systems. Beizer (Software System Testing and Quality Assurance, Van Nostrand-Reinhold, 1984) presents an interesting "taxonomy of bugs" that can lead to effective methods for test planning. Ball (Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems, Newnes Publishing, 1998) addresses the special nature of debugging for embedded microprocessor software.