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 Most software testing books deal with software testing concepts like “What is testing?, “Types of testing” and “testing methodologies”. So when I started reading this book I expected to read a lot of the same things again. But as I progressed I felt that this book is different, Glenford Myers has done a good job. This book does cover the same subjects, but in a more interesting way. The author's approach is practical rather than theoretical.
Author starts with two pillars
of software testing – Black and White Box testing. After explaining these
two basic concepts/methodologies in chapters 2, 3 and 4 Glenford goes to reviews,
walkthroughs and test case design. But after finishing the book, I felt that
the order of these chapters should have been different. A testing novice might
find it difficult to understand the concepts of reviews/test case design directly
without first understanding.
Chapter 5 onwards structure is quite good. There are chapters on Module Testing
covering incremental, top-down, bottom-up testing, higher-order testing load,
stress, security, performance and usability testing. I found these chapters
quite interesting. The explanation of all these testing methodologies become easy
to understand because of the number of examples used. With the help of examples,
not only have the concepts been explained, but the author has also covered how
they can be used while executing a software testing project. But for an amateur
in software testing it might be difficult to digest so many concepts at one
go.
The last three chapters
have been dedicated to debugging, extreme programming and testing Internet applications.
But as I have mentioned
above, the highlight of the book is the extensive usage of diagrams, examples
and code snippets rather than reading many pages of just theory.
Overall, this book is a
good read for beginners as well as the professionals who are working in software
testing field.
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