Foundations of Software Testing - Hardcover

Mathur, Prof Aditya P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8131716600 ISBN 13: 9788131716601

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2008

Synopsis

For undergradute/gradute students of Computer Science and Computer Engineering and for professionals involved in software development and testing
This book presents sound engineering approaches for test generation, selection, minization, assessment, and enhancement. Using numerous examples, it offers a lucid description of a wide range of simple to complex techniques for a variety of testing-related tasks.

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Review

"The book describes techniques in a lucid manner with great clarity with the help of numerous examples. Illustration of the techniques through appropriate examples makes the book very easy to study and assimilate the deep concepts and thus a unique book in the area of software testing.", Ashish Kundu, Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University.

" As a teacher of software testing and validation, I had to search for books that can be used as references in my class and I found that "Foundations of Software Testing" is the best one for at least the following reasons:
- It covers a wide range of concepts related to software testing.
- It introduces the different concepts smoothly with examples illustrating them. This helps students a lot in understanding the ideas behind each concept introduced.
- The exercises at the end of each chapter test if the students understood the concepts properly and as expected.
- The references of the book and the discussion at the end of each chapter both give the reader an opportunity to learn more. The slides are well prepared and organized. This facilitates the task of the professor when lecturing.", Professor Abdeslam En-nouaary, Concordia University.

"This book teaches software testing as a science and not as an art. It not only presents an engineering approach for handling different testing tasks but, also sets up the formal framework for the presented technique. Thus when compared to other books on testing it can be readily used as a resource by both practitioners and researchers which in my view is the real strength of this book.
Initially I thought that there is still much that can be added to this book, but seeing the list of chapters that would be added in subsequent volumes I believe that for the complete set of volumes it would be very difficult to suggest drastic improvements.", Ammar Masood, Graduate student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University.

"So far, I like your book. Plenty of definitions and terminology that is clearly presented." Christine Ayers, undergraduate student, UT Dallas.

About the Author

Aditya P Mathur is Professor, and Head, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. In this book he brings over 30 years of experience in teaching, researching and consulting in software engineering.  He is one of the founders of the department of Computer Science at BITS, Pilani, India where he designed, developed, and taught the first course on microprocessors to undergraduate students from his seminal book Introduction to Microprocessors. Dr. Mathur has been a prolific researcher with over 100 published works in international journals and conferences. His key contributions include a multilingual computer, the saturation effect in software testing, a theory of software cybernetics, and novel techniques for the estimation of software reliability.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 8131716600
• ISBN 13: 9788131716601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 689