Advanced Software Testing V 1: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst - Softcover

Black, Rex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933952199 ISBN 13: 9781933952192

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2008

Synopsis

This book is written for the test analyst who wants to achieve advanced skills in test analysis, design, and execution. With a hands-on, exercise-rich approach, this book teaches you how to define and carry out the tasks required to put a test strategy into action. Learn how to analyze the system, taking into account the user's quality expectations. Additionally, learn how to evaluate system requirements as part of formal and informal reviews, using an understanding of the business domain to determine requirement validity. You will be able to analyze, design, implement, and execute tests, using risk considerations to determine the appropriate effort and priority for tests. You will learn how to report on testing progress and provide necessary evidence to support your evaluations of system quality.

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About the Author

With a quarter-century of software and systems engineering experience, Rex Black is President of RBCS (www.rbcs-us.com), a leader in software, hardware, C systems testing. For over a dozen years, RBCS has delivered services in consulting, outsourcing, and training for software & hardware testing. Employing the industry's most experienced & recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing; builds & improves testing groups; and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today. His popular first book, Managing the Testing Process, has sold over 30,000 copies around the world, including Japanese, Chinese, and Indian releases. His three other books on testing, Critical Testing Processes, Foundations of Software Testing, and Pragmatic Software Testing, have also sold tens of thousands of copies, including Hebrew, Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Russian editions. He has written over twenty-five articles, presented hundreds of papers, workshops, and seminars, and given about 30 keynote speeches at conferences around the world. Rex is the President of both the ISTQB and the ASTQB.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1933952199
• ISBN 13: 9781933952192
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 486