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?
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.
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
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.
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
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?
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!).