Testing Encyclopedia

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Automated Testing Tools

• Testing FAQ tools register
• BCS SIGIST tools register
• ApTest Register - Good Tool Links
• Open Source Testing Site
• Open Source Testing Group
• System Evolutif tool register
• AutoIt - freeware windows macro executer
• Perl Win32 Gui Test module
• Robot DDE / SAFS
• Brett Petticord's Automation List

Action Word Frameworks

• Robot DDE / SAFS
• Scenario Tester
• TestFrame
• Linda Hayes Article Reviewing Frameworks
• Data Driven Tests As Documents (wiki site)

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Books

• BCS SIGIST Library Book List

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Checklists

• Requirements Checklist
• Mixed process checklists
• Software Engineering Checklists
• Dept of Energy Checklists

Certification

• BCS ISEB Qualification in Software Testing
• IIST Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP)
• Article: Software Testers are Certifiable

Conferences

• BCS SIGIST Conferences (UK)
• European Software Testing Conference (Europe)
• EuroSTAR (Europe)
• STAR-West (USA)
• STAR-East (USA)
• Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (USA)
• Quality Week (USA, Europe)
• Practical Software Quality Techniques (USA)

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Design for testability

• Improving software testability

Data Generation

• Data Generation Language for Testing

Database Testing

• EPIK Development and Quality Assurance Guidelines (ORACLE)
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Estimating testing effort

• Project time estimation

Extreme Programming

• XProgramming.com
• extremeprogramming.org
• Extreme programming book
• Extreme testing article

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Test Laboratory

• NASA Test Facility

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Glossary of Testing Terms

• Testworks Glossay of Software Testing Terms
• Software Testing Glossary
• Glossay of terms used in Software Testing
• Randy Rice's Consulting Glossary of Terms
• Glossary of testing terms

Gilb, Tom

• Tom Gilb's Information Page

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ITIL

• ITIL Survival

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Journals

• Software Testing, Verification & Reliability

Java Testing Resources

• Marathon - Opne Source Swing Test Runner

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Test Laboratory

• NASA Test Facility

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Metholodology

• WEBADM Application Development Methodology
• MIS Procedures - University of Bradford
• Free Templates
• Systems Analysis and Design

Metrics

• Halstead Metric
• Code Metrics
• Practical Software Measurement

Management

• SEI Test Management Key Process Attributes
• Managing Test Priorities for Packaged Software, Johanna Rothman
• Successful Test Management: Eight Lessons Learned, Johanna Rothman

Model Based Testing

• Model Based Testing pages
• IBM Alphaworks - Combinatorial Test Services
• ASML Test Tool - (See also Wolfram Schulte)

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NASA

• Software Assurance Technology Center - lots of useful resources available for free
• Software Engineering Laboratory

Newsletters

• Software Tech Newsletter - DoD

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Test Outsourcing

• Checklist for Software Testing Outsourcing
• Contracts for Testing Services: Settling Disagreements
• Technical Paper on Outsourcing

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Processes

• Systeme Evolutif Knowledge Base
• "New Models for Test Development,"by Brian Marick
• TMap

Process Improvement

• TPI®
• SEI CMMI pages
• CMMI tutorial (pdf)

Privacy

• E-Trust, also see info in resources on privacy statements

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Quality Of Experience

• Quality of Experience - EZine

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Reliability Testing

• BCS SIGIST Reliability Testing Standard

Rational Robot

• Rational Tools On-Line Resources

Return on Investment (ROI)

• A Case Study of IV&V Return on Investment (ROI)
• Test Automation Return On Investment (ROI)
• Investing in Software Testing: The Cost of Software Quality - Rex Black
• Quality is Not Free
• Cost to fix defects - Johanna Rothman

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Special Interest Groups

• BCS Special Interest Group in Software Testing (BCS SIGIST)

Security Testing

• OSSTM Security Test Tool List

Statistical Testing

• Statistical Testing Definition
• Statistical Testing at Q-Labs

Service Level Management

• SLM-info.org
• Service level management: Maximizing your network performance - Webcast (17 Jan. 2003)

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Tools

• see Automated Testing Tools above

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Usability Testing

• Web Usability Testing
• UseIt.com - Jakob Nielen's site
• NASA Usability Testing Handbook

Unit Testing

• JUnit - Java Unit Testing Framework
• NUnit - .Net Unit Testing Framework
• SQLUnit - Unit Testing SQL Code
• DBUnit - Unit Testing framework for coordinating database environments
• XMLUnit - Unit Testing XML
• Unit Testing Frameworks
• Extreme Programming Unit Testing Software
• Tool - JTest, C++Test, SOAPTest (Parasoft)
• Tool - Cantata, Cantata++, AdaTest (IPL)
• Tool - VectorCAST
• ApTest Source Code Test Tools Register

User Acceptance Testing

• User Acceptance Test Standard - British Columbia

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Web Testing

• Net Mechanic - HTML Checking and On-line Monitoring
• Collection of reseources for web authors and testers
• HTTP Unit
• HTML Unit (like HTTPUnit and also includes Rhino javascript interpreter)
• Web Application Testing Framework (based on HTTPUnit and Rhino)

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