The comp.software.testing
FAQ is a good place to start for general background on software testing.
The Cetus links span
a very wide range and number of object-oriented topics, including a section
on testing. Good collections of general testing links include:
For patterns and testing, see the RBSC
Test Design Pattern page.
Links for more sites related to testing object-oriented systems follow.
As always, your mileage may vary ...
Concepts and Techniques
Testing Approaches/Strategies
Assertions and Built-in Test
Software Reliability Engineering
State-based Testing, State Modeling
Testing Standards and test plan templates
Associations and Special Interest Groups
Why We Test: Bug Lists, Horror Stories, etc.
Forums, List Servers, News Groups
Publications
Testing Tools
University Courses on Software Testing
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Concepts and Techniques
Testing Approaches/Strategies
Agile Testing
Certification
of Middleware Components
Continuous
Integration
Daily Build
Hardware
Techniques for Testing Software Components
Benchmarking and Testing (Dr
Dobbs)
Phyllis Frankl's page
John McGregor's page
Microsoft's
$162 million test effort for Windows 2000 (PDF)
Neural
Networks in Software and Hardware Testing
Software Testing Hotlist
Software Engineering
and Software Quality References
Test Infected (Extreme
Programming test approach)
Testing
Smalltalk Applications -- OOPSLA 95 Report
They Write
the Right Stuff (Fast Company story on Space Shuttle software
process)
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Assertions and Built-in Test
ADL
Preliminary Design of
ADL-C++ - A Specification language for C++
Java and Design
by Contract
JContract
The Liskov Substitution
Principle (pdf)
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Software Reliability Engineering
More Reliable Software
Faster and Cheaper: An Overview of Software Reliability Engineering.
International Symposium on
Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
SPRE, Inc. (Bill Everett)
Michael Lyu
John Musa
State-based Testing, State Modeling
An
Experiment Using the Round-Trip Strategy for State-based Class Testing.
Binder's testing method is tested (pdf).
Testing
Smalltalk Applications -- OOPSLA 95 Report
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Testing Standards and Test Plan Templates
Bazman's
Sample System Test Plan
BCS
SIGIST Standards Working Party
FDA Software Validation
Guidance
The Interoperability Clearinghouse
(ICH)
IEEE Software Testing
Standards
NASA
ECS System Test Plan
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Associations and Special Interest Groups
Chicago Quality Assurance Association
OMG Test Special Interest Group
Quality Assurance Institute (India)
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Why We Test: Bug Lists, Horror Stories, etc.
Bad Software: A Consumer Protection
Guide
Bill Gates explains why Microsoft
Products have no bugs (1995). In English. Has links to translations
in German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
BugNet
Slashdot
discussion: Debug Your Code or Else
Risks to the Public Digest
Prof. Thomas Hubel's
Collection of Bugs
Otto Vinter's bug statistics
(Word .doc file)
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Forums, List Servers, and News Groups
BetaSoft's QA and Testing Forum
CST Discussion Group
Software testing newsgroup comp.software.testing
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Publications
Journal of Software
Testing, Verification & Reliability (STVR)
Software Testing and Quality Engineering
magazine
Sticky Minds webzine
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Automated Testing Software
The Testing Tools Supplier List
is the best single source of off-the-shelf test tool information (think of it
as a user-maintained yellow pages.) Sun Solutions
has a good list of products for testing Solaris, Unix, and Java: go to Categories/Software
Development Tools/Application Testing.
Here are a just few links to sites and lists of products useful and/or interesting
for automated testing
ADL
Aldec Hardware Design Verification
suite
e-Valid
Cantata
Datatech
DGL
Discover
Expect
Eiffel Developers
Tools
Extreme Programming Testing
Framework
Java
World guide to testing tools
JProbe
MCG Smalltalk test tools
NASA SRL Testing Toolkit (SRLT)
Project
Norton Ghost
NuMega DevPartner
Parasoft
Short
report on testing tools (July 1998)
Silvermark Java & Smalltalk
Testing Tools
SNiFF++
Test
Center
Tcl Developer Xchange
Telelogic Tau
Visual Prolog
Web Test Tool List
Yahoo test tool directory
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University Courses on Software Testing
Colorado State *
Clemson
University *
Franklin
University
George Mason
University
George Mason
University (OO Testing)
George Washington
University
Grand Valley State
University
Johns
Hopkins University
Kansas
State University
Northeastern
University
Southern Methodist
University
University
of Calgary (Canada)
University of California,
Irvine
University of California, San Diego
University
of Hagen (Germany)
University
of Louisiana
University of Missouri,
Kansas City
University
of Texas, Arlington *
* Testing Object-Oriented Systems
is required reading.
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