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A Tester's Guide to .NET Programming (Expert's Voice)

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This book is well written, with enough demo code to appeal to those testers with programming experience, yet understandable for those less technical. The organization is superb, with appendices to provide more in-depth information and quick reference, allowing the more experienced readers to jump right to the areas of interest. Definitely a valuable tool for anyone involved in testing .NET applications.

This book is absolutely targeted to software testers. This isn't an in-depth discussion of why one should use C#'s "as" keyword for safe casting, nor will you find details on asynchronous communication. What you will find is a quick coverage of enough basics to enable testers to start hitting web services, Windows and ASP forms, and even deal with basic COM interoperability

The book is well-written, concise, and in a good voice. The authors carry a common project through much of the book, using the development of a bug reporting system to lay out .NET fundamentals. They use a nice building block approach along the way, starting out sections with the extreme basics and moving on to mid-level topics. (You won't find anything particularly advanced in the book, but again, the focus isn't on pointy-headed developers, it's on pointy-headed testers.)

There are several things I don't care for in the book, mostly from a software engineer's viewpoint. One thing would be the authors' notion of code reuse via copying in code or classes vice simply referencing a different assembly and keeping code in one central spot, but that's from a SE's viewpoint...

This isn't a book for any developer to fool with, but it's an invaluable book for testers looking to learn programming in .NET, specifically tailored for their work as a tester.

I can't say enough nice things about this book. It is wonderfully written, beautifully organized, and chock full of details that everyone involved in software development and testing should know. It is also extremely practical and hands-on. If you are developing .NET software or testing it, you should stop what you are doing until you get your hands on a copy of this book and read every word. I've been a developer for over twenty-five years and learned hundreds of things from reading this text, yet it seems like it would be very easy for a relative beginner to get as much out of as I did because all of the explanations are plain and fairly simple.