Software Testing Foundations: A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam (2014)

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Further Recommended Literature

Buwalda, H.; Jansson, D.; Pinkster, I.: Integrated Test Design and Automation, Using the TestFrame Methods, Addison-Wesley, 2002.

Dustin, E.; Rashka, J.; Paul, J.: Automated Software Testing, Introduction, Management and Performance, Addison-Wesley, 1999.

Jorgensen, Paul C.: Software Testing – A Craftman’s Approach, 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2002.

Kaner C.; Falk, J.; Nguyen, H. Q.: Testing Computer Software, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

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Whittaker, J.: How to Break Software, Addison-Wesley, 2003.

Standards

[BS 7925-1] British Standard BS 7925-1, Software Testing, Part 1: Vocabulary, 1998.

[BS 7925-2] British Standard BS 7925-2, Software Testing, Part 2: Software Component Testing, 1998. This standard was the basis for the British Computer Society ISEB certification and the earlier version of the ISTQB certification. It will be revised and, over time, superseded by ISO/IEC 29119.

[EN 50128] EN 50128:2001, Railway applications – Communication, signaling and processing systems – Software for railway control and protection systems, European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization.

[IEEE 610.12] IEEE Std 610.12-1990, IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology. Superseded by IEEE Std. 24765-2010 – IEEE Systems and software engineering – Vocabulary.

[IEEE 730-2002] IEEE Std 730-2002, IEEE Standard for Software Quality Assurance Plans.

[IEEE 730-2013] IEEE Std 730-2013, IEEE Standard for Software Quality Assurance Processes.

[IEEE 828] IEEE Std 828-2012, IEEE Standard for Configuration Management in Systems and Software Engineering.

[IEEE 829] IEEE Std 829-1998, IEEE Standard for Software Test Documentation (under revision, new edition probably in 2006).

[IEEE 829-2008] IEEE Std 829-2008, IEEE Standard for Software and System Test Documentation (revision of IEEE Std 829-1998).

[IEEE 830] IEEE Std 830-1998, Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications.

[IEEE 982] IEEE Std 982.2-2003, IEEE Standard Dictionary of Measures of the Software Aspects of Dependability.

[IEEE 1008] IEEE Std 1008-1987, IEEE Standard for Software Unit Testing.

[IEEE 1012] IEEE Std 1012-2012, IEEE Standard for System and Software Verification and Validation.

[IEEE 1028] IEEE Std 1028-2008, IEEE Standard for Software Reviews and Audits.

[IEEE 1044] IEEE Std 1044-2009, IEEE Standard Classification for Software Anomalies.

[IEEE 1219] IEEE Std 1219-1998, IEEE Standard for Software Maintenance.

[IEEE/IEC 12207] IEEE/EIA Std 12207-2008: Information Technology – Software life cycle processes.

[ISO 9000] ISO 9000:2005, Quality management systems – Fundamentals and vocabulary

[ISO 9001] ISO 9001:2008, Quality management systems – Requirements.

[ISO 90003] ISO/IEC 90003:2004, Software Engineering – Guidelines for the application of ISO 9001:2000 to computer software.

[ISO 9126] ISO/IEC 9126-1:2001, Software Engineering – Product quality – Part 1: Quality model, Quality characteristics and sub characteristics.

[ISO 9241] ISO 9241-1:2002-02 (D), Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals (VDTs) – Part 1: General introduction. (ISO 9241-1:1997), contains revision AMD 1:2001.

[ISO 14598] ISO/IEC 14598-1:1996, Information Technology – Software Product Evaluation – Part 1: General Overview. This standard has been revised by: ISO/IEC 25040:2011

[ISO 25010] ISO/IEC 25010:2011, Systems and software engineering — Systems and software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) -- System and software quality models.

[ISO 25012]. ISO/IEC 25012:2008, Software engineering -- Software product Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) -- Data quality model

[ISO 29119] This is a new series of standards on software testing. This series is basis of the syllabus valid from 2015.

ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-1:2013 Software and systems engineering – Software testing – Part 1: Concepts and definitions

ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-2:2013 Software and systems engineering – Software testing – Part 2: Test processes

ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-3:2013 Software and systems engineering – Software testing – Part 3: Test documentation

ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-4 (Draft International Standard in Feb 2014) Standard Systems and software engineering—Software testing—Part 4: Test techniques

[RTCA-DO 178] RTCA-DO Std 178B, Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics, Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification, RTCA Inc., 1992. DO178C Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification (new Version “C” of the standard from 2010).

WWW Pages

[URL: ACM Ethics] http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

[URL: BCS] http://www.bcs.org/ The BCS, British Computer Society.

[URL: BCS SIGIST] http://www.testingstandards.co.uk/ Website of the BCS SIGIST Standards Working Party.

[URL: FDA] http://www.fda.gov/ US Food and Drug Administration.

[URL: FMEA] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMEA Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.

[URL: Graham] http://www.dorothygraham.co.uk Home page of Dorothy Graham, A.B., M.Sc.

[URL: GTB] http://www.german-testing-board.info/englisch.html/ German Testing Board.

[URL: HTML] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/ Hypertext Markup Language Homepage definition by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

[URL: IEEE] http://standards.ieee.org Information about IEEE standards.

[URL: IEEE Ethics] http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html The IEEE Code of Ethics.

[URL: ISEB] http://www.iseb.org.uk Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB).

[URL: ISO] http://www.iso.org/ The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) website.

[URL: ISTQB] http://www.istqb.org International Software Testing Qualifications Board.

[URL: ISTQB Members] http://www.istqb.org/ ISTQB Worldwide lists all current international ISTQB members.

[URL: NIST Report] http://www.nist.gov/director/planning/upload/report02-3.pdf The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrastructure for Software Testing, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA, May 2002.

[URL: pairwise] http://www.pairwise.org/ This website contains information about the pairwise combination testing technique and links to opensource, freeware, and commercial tools to support it.

[URL: Parnas] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parnas Information about Dr. David Lorge Parnas.

[URL: Pol] http://www.polteq.com/en/over-polteq/martin-pol Information by and about Martin Pol.

[URL: RBS] http://www.rbcs-us.com/software-testing-resources/articles RBCS Library (papers by Rex Black and others).

[URL: rockynook]Rocky Nook, the publisher of this book. Rocky Nook maintains a website with updates for this book at [URL: softwaretest-knowledge].

[URL: Schaefer] http://www.softwaretesting.no Home page of Hans Schaefer.

[URL: SEPT] http://www.12207.com/index.html Software Engineering Process Technology Company (SEPT), Supplying Software Engineering Standards Information to the World.

[URL: softwaretest-knowledge] http://www.softwaretest-knowledge.de Website with information about this book, its English and German corollary, and other books for the Certified Tester to further their education.

[URL: SWEBOK] http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, SWEBOK V3.0, 2014.

[URL: TestBench] http://www.imbus.de/english/imbus-testbench/ Website for imbus TestBench.

[URL: Tool-List] http://www.imbus.de/english/test-tool-list/ Overview of testing tools; See also http://opensourcetesting.org, Open Source Tools for Software Testing Professionals.

[URL: UML] http://www.uml.org/ Home page of Object Management Group (OMG).

[URL: V-model XT] http://fourever.sourceforge.net/. The flexible V-model can be downloaded here.

[URL: XML] http://www.w3.org/XML/ Extensible Markup Language home page of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

[URL: xunit] http://www.junit.org Component testing framework for Java. See also http://opensourcetesting.org/, Open Source Tools for Software Testing Professionals.