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We've divided our "best of the best" selections into four special collections:
Quality Expert's Desktop | Everything a testing/quality expert should have at easy reach. Our pick of the top 12! |
Quality Guru's Bookshelf | All you need to know to be a real testing/quality Guru. The above collection, plus an additional 12 books for a total of 24! |
Quality Team's Bookcase | Everything your department ought to have. The above two collections, plus an additional 24 books for a total of 48! |
Corporate Quality Library | What your corporate library should stock. All of the above three plus a unique selection of classics of the field. A grand total of 96 of the best of the best! |
- Dr. Boris Beizer, Software Testing Techniques - Second Edition
- Tom DeMarco & Tom Lister, Peopleware: Productive Projects & Teams
- Tom Gilb and Dorothy Graham, Software Inspection
- Robert L. Glass, Building Quality Software
- Watts S. Humphrey, Managing the Software Process: SEI Series in Software Engineering
- Ms. Alka Jarvis & Dr. Vern Crandall Inroads to Software Quality: "How to" Guide and Toolkit
- Michael R. Lyu, Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering
- Brian Marick, The Craft of Software Testing
- J. Musa Software Reliability Engineering; More Reliable Software Faster; Faster Development and Testing
- Robert M. Poston, Automating Specification-Based Software Testing
- Roger Pressman, A Manager's Guide To Software Engineering
- Jeffrey Rubin, Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design & Conduct Effective Tests
These are the top two dozen books we think a testing guru -- someone who trains the experts -- ought to have available as a technical resource. These selections are the "best of the best" and cover the main things a software QA expert ought to know. [Expanded Version]. [Quality Source Order Form].
- Dr. Boris Beizer, Black Box Testing - Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems
- Mordechai Ben-Menachem and Garry Marliss, Software Quality: Producing Practical, Consistent Software
- Michael Cusumano and Richard Selby, Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People
- Daniel Freedman and Gerald M. Weinberg, Handbook of Walkthroughs: Inspections & Technical Reviews
- William C. Hetzel, The Complete Guide to Software Testing
- Watts Humphrey, A Discipline for Software Engineering
- Craig Kaplan, Victor Tang, et. al., Secrets of Software Quality
- Edward Kit, Software Testing in the Real World
- Nancy G. Leveson, Safeware: System Safety and Computers
- Lawrence Putnam and Ware Myers, Measures for Excellence: Reliable Software On Time, Within Budget
- Shel Siegel and Robert J. Muller, Object-Oriented Software Testing: A Hierarchical Approach
- Pascal Zachary, Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
These are the top four dozen books we think your quality/testing team -- which might be doing multiple projects -- ought have available. [Expanded Version]. [Quality Source Order Form]
- E. M. Bennatan, On Time, Within Budget: Software Project Management Practices & Techniques
- Dr. Barry W. Boehm, Software Engineering Economics
- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month
- David N. Card and Robert L. Glass, Measuring Software Design Quality
- Alan Davis, 201 Principles of Software Development
- Peter DeGrace and Leslie Hulet Stahl, The Olduvai Imperative: CASE and the State of Software Engineering Practice
- Tom DeMarco, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, Estimation
- Merlin Dorfman and Richard H. Thayer, Software Engineering
- Robert Grady, Practical Software Metrics for Project Management & Process Improvement
- Jerome B. Landsbaum and Robert L. Glass, Measuring & Motivating Maintenance Programmers
- Nancy G. Leveson, Safeware: System Safety and Computers
- Philip W. Metzger, Managing Programming People: A Personal View
- Mark L. Murphy, C/C++ Software Quality Tools
- Gurmeet Naroola & Robert MacConnell, How to Achieve ISO9000 Registration Economically & Efficiently
- Ann Marie Neufelder, Ensuring Software Reliability
- Martyn A. Ould and Charles Unwin, Testing in Software Development
- William E. Perry, Effective Methods for Software Testing
- Roger Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
- Software Productivity Consortium, Improving the Software Process Through Process Definition and Modeling
- Charles R. Symons, Software Sizing & Estimating: Mk II Function Point Analysis
- David Thielen, No Bugs! Delivering Error Free Code in C & C++
- Ernest Wallmuller, Software Quality Assurance - A Practical Approach
- Rodney C. Wilson, Unix Test Tools and Benchmarks
The books we think your company library ought have available include all of the above PLUS the addition ~50 books shown in the complete list with a one star. We think your company, including your gurus and your experts, will want all of this information. The collection is broad enough and deep enough to handle virtually any problem you may encounter. [Expanded Version]. [Quality Source Order Form]
In the Corporate Library collection you get ALL of the above kits -- a total of 48 books -- plus these, for a grand total of 90+ books.