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Software System Testing and Quality Assurance (Van Nostrand Reinhold Electrical/computer Science and Engineering Series)

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I've read this book to build up my software testing knowledge base while I was working for Logitech,CA. Though these're many new tools and papers coming in these years , I 'll still love to recommend this book as an entry book in this field(even this book is out of print).

I bought this book almost 20 years ago with some skepticism. The title made it sound like it was another book for Dilbert's boss.

But this is a great book. It offers readable insights into why tests are performed, and what tests are appropriate at major phases in a software product. And it doesn't oversell the developer's ability -- **nor the tester's**. A little excerpt to illustrate the balance this book strikes:

"If the programmer just produces a working routine without prood and documentation and all but the primary goals are ignored, its quality cannot be measured and management is impossible. Conversely, if the subsidiary and auxiliary goals dominate, management and quality assurance may seem satisfied, but there's little or no working code to evaluate and manage! You can't burden programmers with filling out thousands of forms -- you can try, but it won't work."