List of Sidebars

Chapter 1: The State of Software Testing Today

Some of the Standards That Have Improved Software and Systems

Chapter 3: Approaches to Managing Software Testing

Assumption #1. The developers have unit-tested the code.

Chapter 4: The Most Important Tests (MITs) Method

Fact: Maturity Is Independent of Method

Agile Development Values

My Perspective on DSDM

eXtreme Programming (XP): A Thumbnail Sketch

Chapter 7: How to Build a Test Inventory

The Expendable Tester Ploy

About "Big Bang" Efforts

Chapter 8: Tools to Automate the Test Inventory

The Office Tools: Collaboration and High-Function Web Sites

Testing Is Not a Project-Or Is It?

Fundamental Principle: Never Rekey Data

Chapter 9: Risk Analysis

Reproducibility and Savings Estimates

Chapter 10: Applied Risk Analysis

Which Comes First? The Analysis or the Plan?

Some Thoughts about Test Coverage

Chapter 11: Path Analysis

In the case statement, the number of paths required for 100 percent coverage:

If-then-else-structure paths for 100 percent coverage:

Chapter 12: Applied Path Analysis

It turns out that it is not a trivial case

Tip for Microsoft Word

Chapter 13: Data Analysis Techniques

A Survivalist View of Boundary Analysis

Drop-Down Selection Boxes Only Keep Out Honest People