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Glenford J. Myers

Author of The Art of Software Testing

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Glenford J. Myers is currently Director of Spectrum Signals Tom Badgett is Chief Information Officer for IdleAire Technologies Corporation Todd M. Thomas is a professional software developer and database administrator with over nine years of experience. His career has exposed him to all sizes of show more software projects for both the private and government sectors. He has also authored Java Data Access, a book on how to use Java technology to leverage enterprise data stores Corey Sandler is President of Word Association show less

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This 1979 publication proved to me that simplicity was better than complexity in software design. After reading this book, I began to focus on program modularity with no module's size being too large to fit on a single sheet of paper. My programs became easier to understand, test, and maintain as a result.

I learned the following rules of structured programming from this book: (1) that each module has exactly one entry point and one exit point; (2) that each module was written to be read in show more top to bottom order with no jumping around; (3) that calling modules should be coded before their corresponding called modules; and (4) that a functioning program becomes available in testable stages.

Best of all, this is the book that introduced me to HIPO (Hierarchical, Input, Process, Output). This concept worked better for me than flowcharts because HIPO diagrams show the data flow through a program as well as the logic flow.

This style of programming became so ingrained in my psyche that I never moved on to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) for the Graphical User Interface (GUI). -JML
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Indeholder "Forord", "1. Selvvurderingsprøve", "2. Psykologi og økonomi ved programtestning", " Økonomien ved testning", " Testprincipper", "3. Inspektion, gennemgang og bedømmelse af programmer", " Inspektion og gennemgang", " Inspektion af koden", " Fejlcheckliste til inspektioner", " Gennemgang af programmer", " Skrivebordsafprøvning", " Jævnbyrdiges vurdering", "4. Udformning af testeksempler", " Dækning af programlogikken", " Opdeling i ækvivalensklasser", " show more Grænseværdianalyser", " Årsag-virkningsdiagrammering", " Fejlgætning", " Strategien", "5. Testning af moduler", " Konstruktion af testeksempler", " Incremental afprøvning", " Oppefra-nedefter kontra nedefra-opefter testning", " Udførelse af testen", "6. Højniveautestning", " Funktionstestning", " Systemtestning", " Godkendelsestestning", " Installationstestning", " Planlægning og kontrol af testningen", " Kriterier for testafslutning", " Det uafhængige testfirma", "7. Fejlretning", " Fejlretning ved brutal kraft", " Fejlretning ved induktion", " Fejlretning ved deduktion", " Fejlretning ved optrævling af programmet bagfra", " Fejlretning ved testning", " Principper for fejlretning", " Analyse af fejl", "8. Testningsværktøjer og andre teknikker", " Moduldriverværktøjer", " Litteraturhenvisninger", " Statisk analyse af ruter", " Overvågning af testdækningen", " Matematiske bevismetoder for et programs rigtighed", " Værktøjer til at bevise korrekthed af programmer", " Symbolsk udførelse af programmer", " Generatorer til testdata", " Simulering af omgiver", " Analyse af "læk-strømme"", " Virtuelle maskiner", " Testning af matematisk programmel", " Analyser af programmelfejl", " Indsamling af data om programmelfejl", " Modeller for forudsigelse", " Måling af kompleksitet", " Systemer til programbiblioteker", " Testningsforsøg", " Forsøg med fejlretning", " Interaktive fejlretningsredskaber", " Hjælpemidler til fejlretning af oversættere", " Overvågning af programmer", " Datamat-arkitekturer", " Bemærkninger til henvisningerne", "Stikordsregister".

Bogen indeholder en tankevækkende test af ens evner for aftestning. Også en god litteraturliste, men noget bedaget.
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Oversat af Jørgen Kjær. Originaltitel: The Art of Software Testing

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