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Title: Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect by Rex Black ISBN: 0-201-74868-1 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The test manager's toolbox just got richer...
Comment: Sometimes a book comes along that just has to become part of your virtual profesional toolbox. Mr. Black has just given us poor testers another such book.
For me this book provides me with all the tips and tricks that I need during a project and that I would have to think of myself instead of just picking up this book and reading about them.
Even better, I now have an excellent source of course materials for our test engineers. Mr. Black explains and justifies every aspect of the testing process just about perfect and his gift for the metaphor makes this book a good evening read.
The checklist approach that he employs is a great planning aid. Our projections are much more precise this method.
I have added this book to our technical library for this project, and I will insist on making it part of every future test project that I will be part of. That is until Mr. Back publishes his next book.
Rating: 5
Summary: When the Planning is Everything...
Comment: Rex Black helps you think about how testing can help your projects. In particular, the planning chapters (using the running example project) make many of the planning and risk management issues obvious. This book will help you determine which activities make sense for you to perform, how to analyze quality risks, how to estimate the work, and how to speak the language of the business (return vs. cost). If you only read the first seven chapters, you'll be farther ahead in your thinking about testing and preparing your group to test than you ever were before.
The prepare chapters (8-11) help you determine which people to select for your team, and how to prepare your test infrastructure, considering that test managers always have limited budgets, people, or time.
A particularly valuable piece of the perform chapters (12-13) is the discussion of how to manage the test builds, who owns what -- how to remove confusion from "which build do I test now?" to an organized plan of handoffs.
And in the perfect chapters, if you've been looking for a way to teach how to write test reports, chapter 14 is your answer.
If you're a manager, you'll use this book on every project, even if you only review the checklists to see if you've missed anything. If you'd like to become a test manager, read this book. Rex describes numerous ways of managing the testing and working with your peers across the organization, to become successful.
I highly recommend this book, whether you're starting a project, in the middle of a project, or completing one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Testing - From inception to delivery - "How to do" book
Comment: Critical Testing process is a book for the new test manager as well as a book for the test manager looking to refine what his or her process of testing is all about. What I liked about the book is it takes you through a fictitious company, Sumatra, whose is about to upgrade and introduce a new enhancement to their software. It is a dialog between the test managers, testers, program management, and VPs of the company. It's like reading a story with a narrator in the background commenting on what is going on. But then breaks off from the scenes talks about what was going on, and the reasons why these things had to happen that way.
As the first chapter starts out - getting the big picture. The biggest thing I have found with Test managers who are struggling in their field is not getting their test group involved - involved I mean from start - at the requirements and implementation phase, versus toward the end, where its almost too late.
The next few chapters go through is estimation and planning, as what we (test managers / test leaders) should all do is go through and then analyze the risks, come up with some estimation of time, and cost of the project. Then the ultimate, sell it too management where the project is most likely already over budgeted. Finally the sell tactic - to gain support for the test effort.
Assuming you have made it through all that planning, the next chapters talk about hiring and putting together a good test team and implementing the test cycle for what amounts to what you will be testing.
The next few chapter talk about the testing, everything from the release criteria handoff to executing test cases, reporting on the progress of testing, leveraging the opportunities and hitting some of the pitfalls. Ending with a summary of what the book was about, and putting it all together.
Some of the books I have read, I walk away with, how can I apply this book to what I am doing. This is a book where it is like a reference guide, where I can look up and gain a possible solution quickly as to how address my everyday scenarios in my test department. Or, as I have done already through ww.stickyminds.com web site, is recommend it to those new test managers who are trying to quickly get a department going, but want to do it correctly.
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Title: Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing, 2nd Edition by Rex Black ISBN: 0471223980 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 19 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Testing Extreme Programming by Lisa Crispin, Tip House ISBN: 0321113551 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 25 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Unit Testing in Java: How Tests Drive the Code by Johannes Link, Peter Frolich, Peter Frohlich, Peter Fröhlich ISBN: 1558608680 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Effective Software Testing: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Testing by Elfriede Dustin ISBN: 0201794292 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 18 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects by Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister ISBN: 0932633609 Publisher: Dorset House Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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