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Foundations of Software Testing

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Foundations of Software Testing is a comprehensive book that can be used both for an undergraduate and a graduate course on testing. The book covers all important aspects of testing in great detail; examples are always present and are easy to follow. The book also has a good set of exercises at the end of each chapter. Though it is a text book (definitely the best one among the few real text books on testing) it is also a very good reference book to people in industry. I strongly recommend the book.

The University of Texas at Dallas is one of the few institutions in USA, which has a Software Engineering Program offering BS, MS and PhD degrees. One of the core courses for our students (both undergraduate and graduate) majoring in Software Engineering is "Software Testing, Verification, Validation and Quality Assurance." Being an instructor for this course, I have long searched for an appropriate textbook for my students. An ideal book should not only cover different testing principles and techniques but also provide good examples with detailed explanations to help students better understand the material. Moreover, it should have sufficient content at different levels (introductory, intermediate, and advanced) so that instructors can select what is the best for their classes. The book "Foundations of Software Testing" by Professor Aditya Mathur is one of the best books that covers all the concerns described above. Moreover, being a researcher in the software testing area with ten years of industry experience, I have also found that this book can serve as a very useful reference for testing practitioners and help them perform their work. I strongly recommend this book to students who want to learn software testing, to instructors who teach classes in testing, and to programmers and testers for whom testing is part of their job.

I have used this book as a software testing researcher and also an educator for over a year now. Many people across the globe, including me, believe that this book by Aditya is the best textbook for teaching testing.

I have used the book in my undergraduate "Software Testing" and my graduate "Advanced Software Testing" courses. Both my students and me love the preciseness, comprehensiveness and detail presented in this book. The informative and to-the-point examples and end-of-chapter exercises add to its value.

Furthermore, I've recently had the chance to look at and quickly compare three recent books on testing: the current book by Aditya Mathur, Ammann and Offutt's "Introduction to Software Testing", and Naik and Tripathy's "Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice". A systematic comparison of them would require much more effort, which has not been feasible for me. However, while I believe all three books are well written by leaders in the field, I think the current book gets my first rank from the teaching perspective and its good style to presenting the testing concepts in order, its modern terminology and good depth of detail.

Last but not least, for the testing educators using this book, I have a surprise and that is: Aditya and I have collaborated since the summer of 2008 in preparing a (partial) solution manual for this book, the URL for which is available from Dr. Mathur's Purdue (book) website. Interested educators may contact me with their credentials and I would send them a copy of the solution manual.

In closing, I admire Aditya's effort in having made a good contribution to the collection of resources emerging on software testing, which I believe is entering its golden age, and the software industry is investing more and more on this very important software engineering discipline. I recommend the book to all testers. Happy testing!

Very well written, and there is something for everyone in this book. I highly recommend this treatise to anyone who is in the Software testing field.