BBST Foundations of Software Testing

by Cem Kaner, Rebecca L Fiedler

The Foundations in Software Testing workbook supports students and self-studiers who want a context-driven introduction to black box software testing. Used in parallel with the instructional materials provided at the Center for Software Testing Education and Research (testingeducation.org/BBST), readers will learn basic testing terminology and consider fundamental challenges in software testing. These challenges include:

- the mission of testing,
- the oracle problem,
- the measurement problem, and
- the impossibility of complete testing.

Genres: Software, Technology

242 pages, Paperback

First published December 30, 2013

About the author

Cem Kaner is a Professor of Software Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and the Director of Florida Tech's Center for Software Testing Education & Research (CSTER) since 2004. He is perhaps best known outside academia as an advocate of software usability and software testing.

Prior to his professorship, Kaner worked in the software industry beginning in 1983 in Silicon Valley "as a tester, programmer, tech writer, software development manager, product development director, and independent software development consultant." In 1988, he and his co-authors Jack Falk and Hung Quoc Nguyen published what became, at the time, "the best selling book on software testing," Testing Computer Software. He has also worked as a user interface designer.

In 2004 he cofounded the non-profit Association for Software Testing.

Reviews

[Ashis Padhi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book to start the career in testing

[Doron · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too old.

[Carlos Mueses · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book a lot. It is very though provoking and changed my position on important testing concepts.