Books Guide: Software Quality Assurance

This book is written for the technical 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 technical aspects and quality characteristics. Additionally, learn how to evaluate system requirements and designs as part of formal and informal reviews, using an understanding of the underlying technology. 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 also learn how to report on testing progress and provide necessary evidence to support your evaluations of system quality.
With a quarter-century of software and systems engineering experience, author Rex Black is President of RBCS; is a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing; and is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today. He published several books on testing that sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide. He is President of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) and is a Director of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB).

This book will help you prepare for the ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst exam. Included are sample exam questions, at the appropriate level of difficulty, for most of the learning objectives covered by the ISTQB Advanced Level syllabus. The ISTQB certification program is the leading software tester certification program in the world. With about 100,000 certificate holders and a global presence in 50 countries, you can be confident in the value and international stature that the Advanced Technical Test Analyst certificate can offer you.

Mastering Software Quality Assurance is a comprehensive reference on quality assurance as it pertains to software development that addresses all four dimensions of quality. It explores a process-driven approach to quality and provides the information and guidance needed for implementing a process quality model in your organization.

Effectively forecast, manage, and control software across the entire project lifecycle. Accurately size, estimate, and administer software projects with real-world guidance from an industry expert. Fully updated to cover the latest tools and techniques, Applied Software Measurement, Third Edition details how to deploy a cost-effective and pragmatic analysis strategy.

This book describes an approach to software management based on establishing an infrastructure that serves as the foundation for the project. This infrastructure defines people roles, necessary technology, and interactions between people and technology. This infrastructure automates repetitive tasks, organizes project activities, tracks project status, and seamlessly collects project data to provide measures necessary for decision making.

Successful software depends not only on technical excellence but on how members of the software team work together. Written in easy to understand language by a leading expert in the field, this ground-breaking volume provides an overview of the team culture required to develop quality software.

Some themes and core values that permeate this text are the integrative and contingency approach, organization, coverage of quality tools, practical presentation, coverage of quality in service and international environments, and coverage of ASQ, CQM, CQE.

Beta testing is a complex process that, when properly run, provides a wealth of diverse information. But when poorly executed, it delivers little or no data while wasting time and money. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book will help you reach the full potential that beta testing has to offer. Michael Fine compiles the best practices to date so you can effectively bring beta testing into your company's process to improve product quality.

Zuse's book on software measurement provides basic principles as well as theoretical and practical guidelines for the use of numerous kinds of software measures. It is written to enable scientists, teachers, practitioners, and students to define the basic terminology of software measurement and to contribute to theory building.

This book is a revised edition of collected articles spanning the Software Quality Assurance field. For those who already have the first edition there are four new chapters and some updating to a few of the existing chapters. The authors have done a good job tying the diverse chapters together and overcoming the multi-author problem inherent in a collection like this. The book remains a definite must for those working under DoD standards.

The premise of this book is simple: your customers are the best judge of software quality; therefore, your customers must be an integral part of your QA program. The author proposes that you: learn how to design a QA program that builds on your customers' expectations; understand how to select the right metrics, test methods, types and tools; and develop a QA program, considering the appropriate role of formal evaluation programs such as ISO 9000 and SEI CMM.

This book provides a practical guide to the implementation of the Ami software metrics program for improved efficiency and effectiveness within a real company environment.

This book discusses the types of tools used in software quality assessment; the various problems developers typically run into; the benefits of an organized unit testing plan; system testing; and using the supplied tools on disk.

From the preface: The book is based on a collection of mishaps and oddities relating to computer technology. It considers what has gone wrong in the past, what is likely to go wrong in the future, and what can be done to minimize the occurrence of further problems.

An introduction to Software Quality Assurance and its Implementation will show you how to build up an efficient, workable system from fundamental principles through to writing procedures and gaining ISO 9001 certification. The book begins by providing an introduction to software quality and the technical background to the various software tasks.

This is an uncommon book in that it offers a balance of technical and practical information. On the technical side, it provides an analysis of models and formulas of software reliability. But it also outlines their practical application within industry.

This book tells you how to apply Total Quality Management to software development and evolution, including how to translate the manufacturing orientation of existing TQM materials into a software environment using extensive examples. The book describes how to benchmark your organization and implement proven action plans for improvement.

This is a short paperback describing some big computer failures, mostly drawn from Datamation.