Other Useful Books

1. Boris Beizer, "Software Testing Techniques, 2nd edition", International Thomson Computer Press, 1990.
   A classic on software testing techniques, suitable for in-depth discussions of specific testing models and related techniques. Most relevant to various coverage-based testing topics.

2. John Musa, "Software Reliability Engineering", McGraw-Hill, 1998. or
   John Musa, "Software Reliability Engineering: More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper, 2nd Edition", (order info at http://members.aol.com/JohnDMusa), AuthorHouse.
   The original title "Software Reliability Engineered Testing" relates more to this class: A book on statistical testing with Musa's operational profiles as the usage models to achieve the goals of "More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper. Most relevant to our usage-based statistical testing topics.

3. Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Les Hatton and Charles C. Howell, "Solid Software", Prentice-Hall, 2004
   The topics covered resemble those in this class, but from the perspective of safety-critical systems point of view, i.e., quality assurance for safety-critical systems.

4. Rex Black, "Critical Testing Processes" Addison-Wesley, 2004,
   More of an operational/managerial perspective on testing, breaking down testing into four major steps (4Ps: plan/prepare/perform/perfect). Works well in combination with our main textbook.

5. Robert Binder, "Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools", Addison-Wesley, 1999.
   Very comprehensive, with 1100+ pages (longest book on our list). Excellent reference.

6. Ken Beck, "Test-Driven Development", Addison-Wesley, 2003.
   If you are into agile development or extreme programming (XP), this should be part of the basic resources for you.

7. Michael R. Lyu, editor, "Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering", McGraw-Hill, 1995.
   The entire book is now online
   Besides general coverage on software reliability engineering, this books also include issues such as defect analysis (ODC chapter by Chillarege), metrics for reliability, operational profile (Chapter by Musa) and usage-based statistical testing, etc.

References about specific tools

• Panagiotis Louridas, "JUnit: Unit Testing and Coding in Tandem", IEEE Software, Vol.22, No.4, pp.12-15, July/Aug., 2005.
  A nice short survey about JUnit.

• Other information about JUnit: search the web for many useful sites. (e.g., www.junit.org, junit.sourceforge.net, junit.netbeans.org, etc.)

• Search the web for many useful information about tools like Rational development/testing tools, ATAC, S-TCAT, McCabe testing, etc.

Other References

• For followup with testing/QA related measurement/analysis/feedback, see the latest class website for SMU/CSE 8317: Software Reliability and Safety.

• A comprehensive survey and a couple of case studies on "Web Testing for Reliability Improvement" will be published soon by Academic Press in its Advances in Computers series.
  (See my list of publications about the reference information.)