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Managing the Testing Process

Rex Black

Microsoft Press

June 1999

Paperback, 381 pages

ISBN: 073560584X

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On-Site and On-Line Training Courses for Business Analysts

How to Plan, Prepare, and Manage Acceptance Testing
How to Test an Application using Business Requirements

This new addition to the Best Practices series describes an integrated approach to managing the computer testing process. While other books on testing focus primarily n the act of testing code, this title addresses both software and hardware issues––with proven techniques to ensure overall project quality. The CD–ROM includes forms and templates for Excel and Access.

From the back cover:

Proven tips and tools for building and executing an effective test project

Earlier editions of this book have helped test managers around the world to develop essential tools and apply them to successful test project management. In this third edition of his bestseller, Rex Black shares lessons he has learned in the decade since the first edition came out and provides a thorough review of the latest tools and resources, making this book even more valuable.

A structured test operation is planned, repeatable, and documented, but preserves creativity and flexibility in all the right places. Rex Black teaches you to develop models for understanding the meaning of the myriad data points generated by testing. Then you can effectively manage what is often a confusing, chaotic, and change–ridden area of the project, building an effective and efficient test organization. You will learn about:

Building a business case for solid testing
Mastering Agile testing challenges, applying risk–based testing, and managing distributed and outsourced testing
Understanding and adapting the new IEEE 829 standard
Building a high–performance test team using skills management, training, and certification
Building and managing an effective test organization, explained with plenty of real–world examples, exercises, and solutions

––This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author:

With a quarter–century of software and systems engineering experience, Rex Black is President of RBCS (www.rbcs–us.com), a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. For over a dozen years, RBCS has delivered services in consulting, outsourcing, and training for software and hardware testing. Employing the industry s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing; builds and improves testing groups; and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. Ranging from Fortune 20 companies to start–ups, RBCS s clients save time and money through improved product development, decreased tech support calls, improved corporate reputation, and more.

As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today. His popular first book, Managing the Testing Process, has sold over 30,000 copies around the world, including Japanese, Chinese, and Indian releases. His three other books on testing, Critical Testing Processes, Foundations of Software Testing, and Pragmatic Software Testing, have also sold tens of thousands of copies, including Hebrew, Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Russian editions. He has written over twenty–five articles, presented hundreds of papers, workshops, and seminars, and given about thirty keynote speeches at conferences and events around the world. Rex is the President of both the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) and the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB).

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