Software Testing Techniques  (English, Paperback, Beizer Boris)

Software Testing Techniques is a book that stresses the fact that the designs for testing purposes are as important as the purpose of testing itself.

Summary Of The Book

Software Testing Techniques demonstrates to the readers as to why the process of testability is crucial and how it can be carried out. There are testability guidelines at the end of every chapter that show how the techniques explained in the chapter can be employed effectively to test software in an easier way, thus making it more useful and reliable. The book discusses the application of the techniques during various phases of creating a new software such as maintenance, integration, system testing and unit. It is useful for all programmers, software engineers, testers, testing theorists, software project managers and system designers.

The book contains a specially dedicated chapter on the functions of the designer and that of the tester, and the strategies for both. The chapter also has the latest information on the prototype, research tools, design automation and test execution. The book takes the readers from the basic levels of testing to the later stages. However, it also contains a basic knowledge of programming in a subtle sense. It details the major changes that have stormed the world of software testing since the printing of its first edition, containing all the updated information, procedures and strategies. It also has a few new chapters like data testing and domain testing.

The book also discusses logic based testing and path testing from a more unified point of view so that it can be used by theorists and practitioners alike. The first unit is an introduction to software testing. It contains an insight into the Need for Testing, Models for Testing, Dichotomies, and Consequences of Bugging. The second unit is about Path Testing, Flow Graph, Path Sensitizing, Achievable Paths, and Path Instrumentation. Yet another unit is on Domain Testing, Interface Testing, and Nice & Ugly Domains. The other topics covered are Flow Anomaly Detection, Decision Tables, State Graphs, and Bad State Graphs.

The last unit, in a series of eight units, is on Application of Graph Matrices, Matrix Power, Motivational Overview, Node Reduction Algorithm, Synchronization of Test Case, and HTTP Connection for Website Access.

About Boris Beizer

Boris Beizer is an author and software engineer based in America.

Other books by the author are Black-Box Testing: Techniques For Functional Testing Of Software And Systems, Micro-analysis Of Computer System Performance, Engineering Applications of Boolean Algebra, and Software System Testing And Quality Assurance.

He did his Bachelor’s in physics in 1956 from the City College of New York. He got his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1963 from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his Doctorate in Computer Science from the same university in 1966. He has worked for the FAA’s Weather Message Switching Center and other similar organizations.