Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing by Rex Black, Rex Black
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Book Reviews of Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
Book Review: A must for any serious tester
Summary: 5 Stars
Of all the books Ive read on software testing this book is by far the best. For me it incorporates both the theory and practical advice for excellent execution. The book is also written in a style that is easy to follow unlike some technical books on this subject.Book Review: Rex Black explains clearly and deliberately
Summary: 4 Stars
My take on this book is that it`s more about creating organization within your test schedule and documentation. He goes through each step of the QA process, from documenting requirements to double-checking the results, and explains how you can spend hours upon hours of documentation for your QA efforts.
It`s useful if you have nowhere to start. It`s full of new ideas if you already have a system in place. It can help you get more out of your testing organization if you have your QA manager read it for homework.
Book Review: Testcase Tracking in Excel?
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Book Review: Opinion on Managing the Testing Process
Summary: 1 Stars
Although the book is supposed to cover both hardware and software, the hardware coverage is negligible. I did not find it very informative with respect to software testing and not useful from the perspective of system testing.Book Review: IT 645 College Book Review
Summary: 1 Stars
This book does not go well with the class, I would suggest to any university that is using this book for IT 645 class, to find a different author.
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