Favorite Software Testing Book?

I'm curious - What's your favorite book on software testing?

If you have a favorite book, why? Also - what subject areas to do you think are important - but missing - from the current swath of testing books on the market?

"Book are old school, I only read blogs" is a perfectly valid response. In that case, what blogs are you reading?

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Permalink Reply by Tony Simms on September 15, 2008 at 3:09pm: I have a couple of favorites, but my all time number one is

Software testing In The Real World, by Edward Kit

I have bought and handed out multiple copies of this book I think it is so good.

I love the easy to read style, the practicle application and the very usable appendicies.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mark Crowther on September 17, 2008 at 3:43pm: Edward Kit's book is fantastic. I bought a set of 6 off Ebay and this was one of them.

Of about 15 books I have, including some written by Cem Kaner, James Bach, etc. that one would expect to be 'top of the list', I'd choose Edward Kit's every time.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phil kirkham on September 15, 2008 at 3:55pm: tricky, as you said book and not books but I'll get round that by listing the choices I'm trying to choose from...

Testing Computer Software by Kaner, Falk and Nguyen as it was the first book on testing I bought, it opened my eyes on what proper testing involved and set me off on my testing career

A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design by Lee Copeland, a good guide to testing techniques and another early purchase

Couldn't have a list without a Weinberg book so maybe Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design as testing is not just about code

and testing doesn't operate in a vacuum so I'd have to add in Peopleware as well

Whats missing ? How to use all these techniques and theories in the real world when under pressure and with little staff, scaling up for large enterprises and projects; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sherilyn Tasker on September 16, 2008 at 12:54am: My favourites are:
Lessons learnt in software testing (Kaner,Bach & Pettichord)
How to break software (Whittaker)

These are both practical books that just make sense.
There is only so much you can learn from a book and I think most subject areas have already been covered.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ahmed Mubbashir Khan on September 16, 2008 at 7:40am: When I was very new to Testing, The books which really help me out were:
-Software Testing (Introductory, Simple and I found it effective)
By Ron Patton
-Software Test Automation Effective use of test execution tools
Mark Fewster Dorothy Graham

Since then only follow my Ever increasing list of Blogs..
Following are few of the feeds (in Alphabetic order) from which I have learn a lot (there for they are my favorite).
-Adam Goucher
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AdamGoucher

-Cem Kaner's Blog
http://www.satisfice.com/kaner/?feed=rss2

-Elisabeth Hendrickson Ruminations
http://www.testobsessed.com/feed/

-James Bach's Blog
-http://www.satisfice.com/blog/feed/

-Michael Boltan DevelopSense Blog
http://www.developsense.com/blog/atom.xml

-Quality Frog
http://qualityfrog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

-Tester Tested !
http://testertested.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

-The Braidy Tester
http://blogs.msdn.com/micahel/rss.xml
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Permalink Reply by Simon Godfrey on September 16, 2008 at 12:10pm: On the topic of testing books (sorry to go off on a slight tangent Matt), has anyone received their copy of "Perfect Software: And Other Illusions About Testing" yet?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phil kirkham on September 16, 2008 at 12:13pm: nope - that makes 3 of us at least; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Matthew Heusser on September 16, 2008 at 12:18pm: That makes four ...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phil kirkham on September 16, 2008 at 12:20pm: I was only counting those in the UK :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Simon Godfrey on September 17, 2008 at 7:30am: Annoying, isn't it? I might email the man himself and demand a free, signed copy! I was quite looking forward to reading it (which could be irring on the sad side!).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phil kirkham on September 17, 2008 at 7:45am: No need to email him - he is aware, he left a comment in my blog about the book !; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phil kirkham on September 19, 2008 at 11:05am: seems The Software Testing Club has some influence, just got an email from Amazon to say it has been dispatched !!; ▶ Reply to This