Purpose of the Book

This book provides comprehensive and rigorous guidance to workers in the field of software testing for researching or setting up a software testing process within organizations.

The book provides advice and guidance on all aspects of the testing process, including:

• The need to test software and the approach to testing

• Specific details of testing techniques, with examples

• The planning and management of testing projects

• Testing roles and responsibilities

• Comprehensive details of the testing phases

• Extensive testing document templates, proformas, and checklists

• Recommendations for testing process improvement and the role and use of metrics

• The testing challenges facing testers involved in quality assurance tasks on agile projects

• The testing challenges facing developers of object-oriented and component-based systems

The book covers the testing of software from a number of sources, including software developed or modified in-house, software that represents the modification or extension of existing legacy software systems, and software developed on behalf of an organization by a third party.

The book also covers acceptance testing of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software procured by an organization, or COTS software that has undergone bespoke development either internally or by a third party on behalf of an organization.