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GamesFor several years, I have recommended Bill Perry's Effective Methods for Software Testing, 2nd Ed to people who are looking for testing processes they can customize and apply quickly. I have also included this book as a reference text in many of my testing courses. Obviously, I feel that the book is very helpful to software testers. In the third edition, there are two fewer chapters, but the coverage of topics has been revised...
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Excellent book that covers testing in a lot of detail. It provides excellent ready to use test processes if you don't have any established already. Very comprehensive but you can still pick out the bits that are going to be of immediate value to your organisation. If you don't have a lot of experience you may need some help doing this though. Highly recommended
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This is a very good book, despite what the other reviewers say. It is aimed at the professional software developer, consistent with good software engineering practices. Unfortunately, those who still work ad hoc in software development do not understand the value of formal processes and the resulting reduction of risk or increase in quality. This book assume that readers, and their organizations, have the required discipline...
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William Perry hits on many aspects of software testing and how it is impacted by other phases within the software development life cycle. This is one book that anyone involved in the testing arena needs to read. The success of test group cannnot continue without Perry's ideas.
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The Perry text will serve as a solid basic text for academic settings (thus the 4 star rating) but needs to be updated for client/server testing situations.
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