Software Testing as a Service

In today's unforgiving business environment where customers demand zero defect software at lower costs—it is testing that provides the opportunity for software companies to separate themselves from the competition.

Providing a fresh perspective on this increasingly important function, Software Testing as a Service explains, in simple language, how to use software testing to improve productivity, reduce time to market, and reduce costly errors. The book explains how the normal functions of manufacturing can be applied to commoditize the software testing service to achieve consistent quality across all software projects.

This up-to-date reference reviews different software testing tools, techniques, and practices and provides succinct guidance on how to estimate costs, allocate resources, and make competitive bids. Replete with examples and case histories, this book shows software development managers, software testers, testing managers, and entrepreneurs how proper planning can lead to the creation of software that proves itself to be head and shoulders above the competition.

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Software Testing and Analysis: Process, Principles and Techniques » Barnes & Noble.com

The first comprehensive book on software test and analysis You can't "test quality into" a software product, but neither can you build a quality software product without test and analysis. Software test and analysis is increasingly recognized, in research and in industrial practice, as a core challenge in software engineering and computer science.

Software Testing and Analysis Process, Principles, and Techniques is the first book to present a range of complementary software test and analysis techniques in an integrated, coherent fashion. It covers a full spectrum of topics from basic principles and underlying theory to organizational and process issues in real-world application. The emphasis throughout is on selecting a complementary set of practical techniques to achieve an acceptable level of quality at an acceptable cost.

Highlights of the book include
* Interplay among technical and non-technical issues in crafting an approach to software quality, with chapters devoted to planning and monitoring the software quality process.
* A selection of practical techniques ranging from inspection to automated program and design analyses to unit, integration, system, and regression testing, with technical material set in the context of real-world problems and constraints in software development.
* A coherent view of the state of the art and practice, with technical and organizational approaches to push the state of practice toward the state of the art. Throughout, the text covers techniques that are suitable for near-term application, with sufficient technical background to help you know how and when to apply them.

Exercises reinforce the instruction and ensure that you master each topic before proceeding. By incorporating software testing and analysis techniques into modern practice, Software Testing and Analysis Process, Principles, and Techniques provides both students and professionals with realistic strategies for reliable and cost-effective software development.

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Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet

Author(s): Simo Johnson
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL
Format: PDF
Protect your children from dangers that lurk on the Internet. Learn to identify the real threats--be they pedophiles, cyber-stalkers, hackers, spyware, viruses, or adware. This book is a practical how-to guide for WinXP users and doesn't require any special technical knowledge.

This isn't a hand-wringing account of the dangers, it is a practical resource that focuses on the tools that can be used to for access control. The internet and it's related services (the web, email, newsgroups etc) involves two-way traffic. In order to provide protection it's necessary to exercise control over who can send material to your computer and control over where a child-user can go. Dangers are discussed in a calm and factual manner, and examines ways of risk reduction.

The author explains how things work; he provides the non-technical parent and interested reader, with an insight that should give them confidence in dealing with protecting the youth from internet-related dangers. The book is in parts that discuss a specific issue; spam, viruses, spyware and adware, and pop-ups.

This book is an exceptional good reference and resource that deserves a place in any library. A book that should be brought to the attention of parents by schools and community organisations.

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