Quality, Reliability and Testing

Updated 30 OCT 2001
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Software Quality, Reliability & Testing Resources

This page contains resources, links and recommended books for:

Software Testing

Software Quality Assurance

Verification and Validation

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Quality & Testing Papers

Estimation and Metrics Contents: Documents and presentations on software estimation, process improvement and metrics
Gentle Introduction to Software Engineering Contents: 128 page guide in MS Word format
Software Engineering and Process Models Contents: PowerPoint and Word documents covering basic models
Software Security Testing Methodology Contents: Guidelines in MS Word format
Quality Assurance Guidelines Contents: PowerPoint presentations on verification and validation, test workflow and dependability
Software Management Guidebook Contents: NASA's software engineering guide in MS Word format
Software Quality Assurance Contents: Overview of SQA in MS Word format
Software Reliability Contents: Collection of documents covering aspects of software reliability, error analysis, orthogonal defect classification and general SQA (we have provided two Quick Reference Charts for Orthogonal Defect Classification that you might find useful: Quick Reference Chart 1 and Quick Reference Chart 2. See Also: IBM's Orthogonal Defect Classification page
Software Estimation and Analysis Tool Contents: MS Windows application for estimating software development using SLOC (per the constructive cost model) and function points
Software Quality Certifications Contents: Papers on software quality certification for three industry seqments - interesting and adaptable. MS Word format
Test and Quality Contents: Collection of Powerpoint presentations on topics such as ISO9000 Compared to CMM, measuring quality, etc.
Testing Basics Contents: Collection of Word, PowerPoint and Acrobat documents on basic software testing
V-Model Contents: Development Standard for IT-Systems of the Federal Republic of Germany in Word and JPEG formats
Web Testing Contents: Documents and spreadsheets for web testing
Test Documentation Contents: Test Plan, scripts and other templates, and additional test documentation and guidelines
Configuration Management: The Big Picture Contents: Acrobat document developed by TEAM Zarate Tarrani that shows metrics for each stage in the development life cycle
Life Cycle Quality Gates Contents: Acrobat document developed by TEAM Zarate Tarrani that describes configuration management, change control, promotion and release
Law of Software Quality Contents: Essential reading about software quality and legal issues

Quality & Testing Links

Practical Software and Systems Measurement Worth getting: PSM Guidebook, PSM Insight (a full-featured free software measurement application), measurement presentations and more
Web Metrics Testbed
Reference Information for the Software Verification and Validation Process
Software Error Analysis
Structured Testing: A Testing Methodology Using the Cyclomatic Complexity Metric
Quality Characteristics And Metrics For Reusable Software
A Study on Hazard Analysis in High Integrity Software Standards and Guidelines
Experimental Models For Software Diagnosis
Software Quality Assurance Resources
Reference Information for the Software Verification and Validation Process
SPI and SQA site
Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination
Sticky Minds Testing Resources
Collection of the Best Web Sites on Software Process Improvement and Software Quality
CMM and Process Improvement Related Sites
Systems Engineering Process Office Worth getting: process documents, presentations, and related articles and papers on the full range of testing, quality, CMM and software engineering KPAs
Software Testing Resources

Quality & Testing Books

Books We've Reviewed

Automated Web Testing Toolkit: Expert Methods for Testing and Managing Web Applications
Web Testing Handbook
Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability
Testing IT: An Off-The-Shelf Software Testing Process Includes downloadable templates that you can review before purchasing the book
Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software
Verification and Validation of Modern Software-Intensive Systems
Handbook of Software Quality Assurance
Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement

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