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Summary: An excellent book on Test Automation
Review: The book talks a great deal about software test automation management and architecture. I particularly like the test management part. It outlines a detail process of selecting and implementing a test tool. In my opinion, this book is very useful for an automation team lead person. I found the book very informative.
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Summary: Very solid!
Review: The material contained in this book is solid! I have reviewed all chapters and keep going back to it for various test management and test implementation references. It's invaluable to my automated testing efforts. I highly recommend this book to anyone managing or implementing automated software testing efforts. JG
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Summary: Misleading book for managers.
Review: This book is entirely management with no technical content. Worse, the authors seem to think they know the technical side, and thus may mislead readers into thinking that they understand it as well. A major problem in software testing is that it is typically practiced by people who can't program and can't do math, and managed by people who not only can't do either, but don't realize that both skills are important to effective testing.I think we have enough process books ...
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Summary: Good for All levels
Review: This book was key in helping me to determine what to look for in a testing tool. It did a review of the tools on the market, what they do, how they do it and what organizations may best benefit from the tool. It also helped shed some light on the truth about what automation can and cannot do. I found it helpful with a solid way of promoting realistic management expectations, oxymoronic statement that it is, and it give me some place to start in developing useful scripts. I also learned about different ways to use the tools, i.e. methods and techniques that were foreign to me, the new tester.
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Summary: automated software testing
Review: This is excellent book. i use to cal it Automated Software testing bible. It's usable in practice. It helps you to develop your own strategy for automating tests in your own test environment. Guidelines presented in this book are real ones, and easy transferable to real Test world. Best book I have ever read about test automation.
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Summary: Excellent Book for implementing Automation
Review: This is one of THE books if you plan on implementing automated testing in your software shop. Covers everything from Lifecycle to tool evaluations to best practices. This one that is definitely on my "bookshelf on the go" that follows me to all projects. I especially appreciated the Appendix with real world stuff and references to tool manufacturers. Great work!
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Summary: Excellent book for testing entire life cycle
Review: This is the best (and perhaps only) book on the market that addresses entire system development life cycle testing. Automated Software Testing is very useful whether you are using the manual or automated test approach. We are converting to an automated test approach and some of the recommendations made in the book (particularly evaluating test tools) provided valuable insights. This book will pay for itself many times over and over.
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Summary: Cut out the bull
Review: Unfortunately this book (like nearly all other books on software testing) does not teach you how to test software. Instead it only gives you information needed to manage software testing. And, like many other books of management, it is highly repetitive and redundant. For somebody needing compressed information this is the wrong book. I think it would be no big deal to reduce the number of pages to 50% and still deliver the same message. The exmamples given in the text read like from a psychology book, not like from a technical book. Despite my critique I have to admit that the annexes in the book can be highly valuable. Personally I liked best the review of the big number of test tools.
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Summary: good all-around book on automated testing
Review: very good introduction into testing engineering in general, not only into automated testing - it touches, for example, recruiting and development of test engineers as well. Well structured, methodical approach to test development is of big help for those who only start to implement automated testing. The only thing that I miss in this book are more of "real-life" examples - complete, with problems and failures. Also, I just filtered out all this "methodology" and just concentrated on practical aspects of a book.
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Summary: A book that could become a way of progressing
Review: Without trying to waffle I think the best compliment I can give this book is that it has the potential to become another "The art of testing" - by Glenford Myers. I have over 8 years of Software testing experience, both manual and automated testing, and have been at "the start" of many organisations attempts to introduce a test team. This book would have made my job a whole lot easier! No matter what how you judge your own level of experience within the testing industry there is something for everyone. I own both "The art of testing" and this book and both travel with me during my working day.
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