Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement, Second Edition, illustrates a quality framework for software testing in traditional structured and unstructured environments. Section I reviews modern QA principles and best practices. Section II examines the waterfall development methodology. The next section contrasts waterfall development methodology with the rapid application spiral environment. Section IV discusses fundamental challenges of maintaining and improving existing systems. Section V contains a history of software testing, previews future testing tools, and guides the choosing of proper tools for various environments. It provides examples of some of the most popular products, and offers a detailed methodology for evaluating them.
...a comprehensive, practical cookbook of software testing with a slight mix of quality spices. ...the book is a step-by-step guide of how to perform testing. It is practically focused and, in many of the chapters, the reader can follow the tasks (as if they were recipes) when performing testing activities.
-Software Testing, Verification & Reliability, Vol. 15, No. 3, Sept. 2005