Software Testing and Quality Assurance

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"The text is user friendly, very clear, and supported byappropriate tables and process figures, combined with examples andprocess execution steps. There are useful detailed explanationsinside text boxes and table, with nicely designed and explainedfigures, as well as generated software code samples...This is avery advanced book that I highly recommend to all software testingand QA practioners." (Computing Reviews, November 5, 2008) This book provides a comprehensive review of topics dealing withsoftware testing and quality assurance. The writing style is plainbut efficient, while the content covers theoretical (to someextent) and practical concepts in this field. Naik (Univ. ofWaterloo, Ontario, Canada) and Tripathy (NEC Laboratories AmericaInc.) seem to have limited exposure to current research in softwaretesting, but they adequately cover the fundamentals. The literaturereview sections are useful for researchers who wish to expand theirknowledge on a specific topic, with references well placed at theend of individual chapters. The rather basic exercises are notreally helpful for instructors. The work would benefit by a fewmore supportive examples, although the ones present are welldesigned to illustrate the theory, where available. Softwaretesting may be considered a relatively specialized computer sciencetopic, existing in the few departments where a software-testingexpert resides or in academic institutions offering a softwareengineering degree. However, it is nevertheless an importantsubject, with extended applications in industry, the concepts ofwhich are covered adequately here. This volume would be useful forinstructional purposes at the undergraduate level and forprofessionals seeking references to more specialized information.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates,faculty, researchers, and practitioners. - D.Papamichail, University of Miami (Choice, 2009)