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 Techniquesis 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 Techniquesprovides both students and professionals with realistic strategies for reliable and cost-effective software development.

Mauro Pezzè, PhD,is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Milano–Bicocca. He received his PhD degree in computer science from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Dr. Pezzè has served as technical program chair of the 2006 ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.  He has been technical lead for several multi-year international research and development projects in close collaboration with leading European information and communication companies including IBM, Phillips, Elsag, and Siemens, among others.  He also has an active consulting practice.

1 Software Test and Analysis in a Nutshell

2 A Framework for Test and Analysis

3 Basic Principles

4 Test and Analysis ActivitiesWithin a Software Process

II Basic Techniques

5 Finite Models

6 Dependence and Data Flow Models

7 Symbolic Execution and Proof of Properties

8 Finite State Verification

III Problems and Methods

9 Test Case Selection and Adequacy

10 Functional Testing

11 Combinatorial Testing

12 Structural Testing

13 Data Flow Testing

14 Model-Based Testing

15 Testing Object-Oriented Software

16 Fault-Based Testing

17 Test Execution

18 Inspection

19 Program Analysis

IV Process

20 Planning and Monitoring the Process

21 Integration and Component-based Software Testing

22 System, Acceptance, and Regression Testing

23 Automating Analysis and Test

24 Documenting Analysis and Test

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