A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design

by Lee Copeland

Overview

Here's a comprehensive, up-to-date and practical introduction to software test design. This invaluable book presents all the important test design techniques in a single place and in a consistent, and easy-to-digest format. An immediately useful handbook for test engineers, developers, quality assurance professionals, and requirements and systems analysts, it enables you to: choose the best test case design, find software defects in less time and with fewer resources, and develop optimal strategies that help reduce the likelihood of costly errors. It also assists you in estimating the effort, time and cost of good testing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580537919
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/01/2003
Series:	Artech House Computing Library
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.74(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Lee Copeland is a consultant in the areas of testing methodologies, test management and web site testing at Software Quality Engineering. He has more than twenty-five years experience as an information systems professional specializing in software development and process improvement.

Table of Contents

Introduction. The Testing Process. Case Studies. Black Box Testing Techniques. Equivalence Class Testing. Boundary Value Testing. Decision Table Testing. Pairwise Testing. State-Transition Testing. Domain Analysis Testing. Use Case Testing. White Box Testing Techniques. Control Flow Testing. Data Flow Testing. Testing Paradigms. Scripted Testing. Exploratory Testing. Test Planning. Supporting Technologies. Defect Taxonomies. When To Stop Testing. Some Final Thoughts. Case Studies. Bibliography.