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For a practical guide to software testing, readers can look to Rex Black's Managing the Testing Process, a compendium of real-world advice on managing software testing successfully. It is a veritable hodge-podge of sample test documents and is filled with recommendations from an old hand at test management.

Early sections examine the design of test plans, along with strategies for assessing and prioritizing risk as well as catching bugs through effective testing. Sample case studies include a network hardware device and a Java word processor.

Throughout this book, a variety of documents (including Excel spreadsheets and Access databases) are presented to get you started on your own testing projects. (Though reproduced here in truly microscopic print, all sample documents are included on the accompanying CD-ROM.) The book also looks at metrics for measuring the performance of your testing operation.

Managing the Testing Process shows how a bug-tracking database is the most effective model for managing the testing cycle. This book is chock-full of advice on testing management. The author also presents dozens of tips for succeeding in the software Q/A job market.

Sections on designing a lab and staffing it, including a valuable discussion on when to use consultants and when to outsource testing, provide a practical guide to today's testing management. After an introduction to working with other players in today's software organizations, a final chapter looks at managing testing across different locations.

Many developers spend time in Q/A as a stepping stone to careers in software design. And as the author points out, the job of test engineer is growing in popularity. Read this book to find out the often harsh realities of software testing along with strategies for improving the effectiveness of your software testing team. --Richard Dragan

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An updated edition of the best tips and tools to plan, build, and execute a structured test operation

In this update of his bestselling book, Rex Black walks you through how to develop essential tools and apply them to your test project. He helps you master the basic tools, apply the techniques to manage your resources, and give each area just the right amount of attention so that you can successfully survive managing a test project!

Offering a thorough review of the tools and resources you will need to manage both large and small projects for hardware and software, this book prepares you to adapt the concepts across a broad range of settings. Simple and effective, the tools comply with industry standards and bring you up to date with the best test management practices and tools of leading hardware and software vendors. Rex Black draws from his own numerous testing experiences-- including the bad ones, so you can learn from his mistakes-- to provide you with insightful tips in test project management. He explores such topics as:

Dates, budgets, and quality-expectations versus reality
Fitting the testing process into the overall development or maintenance process
How to choose and when to use test engineers and technicians, contractors and consultants, and external test labs and vendors
Setting up and using an effective and simple bug-tracking database
Following the status of each test case

The companion Web site contains fifty tools, templates, and case studies that will help you put these ideas into action--fast!

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Managing testcases in Excel? 26. Oktober 2005

Von Stephan Wiesner VINE™-PRODUKTTESTER

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Black keeps on stating, that he has a lot of practical experience. The book is supposed to help me in my daily business as a (for me) testmanager. Well, it did not.
1) I can not take him serious (watching him give a presentation is fun and interesting, though), when he proposes to manage testcases in Excel. Of course I tried that (didn't we all try that once?), in fact have seen it on several projects. It failed every single time. You need a database system for even medium sized projects. I actually found it very helpful to use a bugzilla like system to manage them.

2) He describes a bug tracking system. That might have been necessary a few years ago, but today there is Bugzilla (or Jira, or the like). They are cheap, very flexible and developed from a need. On the World Congress for Computer Quality in Munich (2005) I talked to several vendors of such testcase tracking systems. They were quite expensive and none could provide me some of the feautures possible with Bugzilla. Oh, they had all kinds of fancy wizards and automatic equivalent classes generators and the like. Too bad, that I never missed those things, might be because time is the single most contraining factor for me and my team.

So, the book gives a good theoretical overview. It is easy to read and beginners will certainly learn something from it. If you have any background book on testing and have some experience in testing, don't bother.

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Well written, but poor accompanying CD 20. M�rz 2000

Von Phillip Kenny

I found this book well written, with an engaging style for what can be a very dull subject. Not exactly what I was looking for, but I was able to glean enough nuggets to gain some benefit.

Very disappointed in the accompanying CD. Ad hoc samples appear to have been thrown together at the last minute. Simple things like a lack of data (1 record per sample database), poor data models, incorrectly documented comments and a lousy UI. Individual samples existed in a vacuum and did not tie together into a coherent whole. I would have held this book in higher regard if no CD had been included.

It would appear that Rex Black did not practise what he preaches in this case - not a good look for a testing / QA publication.

Good book - recommended for everyone who manages testing 15. Oktober 1999

Von Ein Kunde

I very much liked the book. Rex Black has written about the process and management side of testing. This makes it an ideal complement to Cem Kaner's "Testing Computer Software" (which deals with testing technique) and Boris Beizer's "Software Testing Techniques" (which deals with the fundamentals).

I found the templates useful, mostly because I never worked my way around Excel to get those metrics in an automated manner. But don't expect them to be replacement for commercial test management tools.

This should be a required reading for anyone who plans or manages testing.