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Testing IT: An Off-the-Shelf Software Testing Process
John Watkins Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 052179546X |
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This pragmatic guide provides a testing framework for software professionals looking to improve product quality and to reduce timescales, effort, and cost. It covers all aspects of testing for software developed or modified in-house, modified or extended legacy systems, and software developed by a third party. The reader can customize the framework to match the particular testing requirements of any particular organization. Packed with a series of real-world case studies, the book also provides a comprehensive set of standard testing document templates, proformas, and checklists for the reader to use in projects.Customer Reviews:
Pretty Good - But..........2002-01-03
Instead of focusing on conceptual "dos and don'ts", the case studies shed light on what happened in specific instances. This section makes the book a worthwhile buy.
Lives up to its title! Exceptionally valuable.......2001-06-09
The 12 chapters in Part 1 cover the basics of a traditional testing process. Because this book's focus is not so much about teaching testing as it is about providing a process, this information is more of an anchor point to ensure that you understand the author's terminology, perspective and approach. Covered in this part are: overview of testing, testing techniques at a high level, test planning and management, unit, integration and system testing, systems integration testing, user acceptance testing, operations acceptance testing, regression testing, test process improvement, and the introduction, adoption and maintenance of the testing process.
Some of the key strengths of Part 1, in my opinion, include how Mr. Watkins ties test stages to life cycle milestones using the V-model and the clear distinction made between functional and non-functional testing techniques. I also liked the chapter layout for each testing technique, which presented each technique in a clear and consistent manner. The layout starts with an overview of the technique, gives the approach and test data requirements, roles and responsibilities, planning resources, inputs, techniques and outputs. This layout clearly lends itself to plan-do-check-act or entry-task-validation-exit models used in mature quality organizations.
It's important to note that the processes are generic and need to be tailored to your organization based. This is especially true of terms and definitions. For example, my definition of user acceptance testing differs from the author's, as does my definition of Defect Removal Efficiency. I did a search of both terms on the Internet and found a 60%/40% split in favor of the author regarding the definition of user acceptance testing, and a 75%/25% split in my favor with respect to the definition of Defect Removal Efficiency. The significance of this is software testing, despite the growing body of knowledge, IEEE standard terminology and inclusion of KPAs in the CMM, is still hampered by imprecise terminology. I am grateful that the author included a glossary in this book that succinctly gives his definitions.
Part 2 provides five chapters of case studies showing how testing processes are implemented in organizations. These case studies are presented in a format that lends itself to comparative analysis: organization overview, testing requirements unique to the organization, how the organization manages and plans testing, roles and responsibilities, testing phases, artifacts, and process improvement initiatives. This part of the book is a gold mine of best practices and ideas, and shows how five organizations implemented a viable testing process to meet their unique requirements.
The appendices are a collection of artifacts that you can tailor to your own testing process. This collection consists of TEMPLATES AND FORMS: A-Terms of Reference (scope and roles/responsibilities of the process), B-Testing Guide covering each of the testing techniques in Part 1, C-Test Plan Template, D-Test Specification Template, E-Test Script Template, F-Test Result Record Template, G-Test Log Template, H-Test Certificate Template, I-Reuse Pack Checklist, J-Test Summary Report Template. WORKED EXAMPLES: K-Equivalence Partition Example, L-Boundary Analysis Example, M-State Transition Example. CHECKLISTS AND OVERVIEWS: N-Automated Testing Tool Selection Criteria, O-Usability Testing Overview, P-Test Process Health Check and Q-Testing Object-Oriented Software.
Appendices A through P are also provided electronically via the URL provided in the book. They are in MS Word format. Note that the book and Part 3 make reference to a CD ROM, which does not exist. Also, the URL provided will redirect you to a home page on the publisher's web site and from there you will need to search for the book title, which leads to the book page and a hyperlink titled "solutions to problem sets". It's worth the trouble because the templates are the key artifacts of the "Off-the-Shelf Software Testing Process".
This book is one of the most valuable testing references that I own. It will kick-start an implementation of a mature and effective testing process, and can be tailored to fit any organization's unique requirements. It earns a solid five stars and a place on my short list of testing books.
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Off-The-Shelf Fabric Painting: 30 Simple Recipes for Gourmet Results
Sue Beevers Manufacturer: C&T Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1571202269 |
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Quilters learn to create one-of-a-kind painted fabrics right in their own kitchen with Off-the-Shelf Fabric Painting. Fiber artist Sue Beevers shows them how, making it fun and easy. Quilters learn to create everything from simple lines and splatters to salting and sun-printing. Techniques rely on water-based paints used with readily available tools and supplies, such as oatmeal, yogurt containers, and file folders. This guide offers advice on practical color theory, helps quilters recover from mishaps, and even provides paint brand comparisons.Customer Reviews:
Recipe for success.......2006-01-08
Gets your creative juices flowing!.......2005-06-03
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Off The Shelf: Cooking From the Pantry
Donna Hay Manufacturer: Ecco ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0066214483 Release Date: 2001-10-23 |
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Donna Hay, Australia's bestselling cookbook author, understands our pain. The pain, that is, of producing delicious meals when time is tight and we really can't shop--again. Off the Shelf: Cooking from the Pantry presents a blueprint for from-scratch good eating that relies on a thoughtfully stocked larder, a few fresh ingredients, and truly streamlined recipes. The idea isn't new, of course, but Hay finds a better way with it, presenting recipes like Pasta with Pancetta and Peas; Lime, Beef, and Noodle Salad; and Green Olive and Baked Chicken that are truly quick and easy to do. First published in Australia, Off the Shelf arrives here in an edition meant to work for American cooks; if ingredient names, quantities, and some operations aren't always completely "translated" (one recipe calls for English spinach leaves) or given conventional American form, willing readers will still be able use it most productively.Organized by ingredients and topics, the book offers buying advice throughout, regular recipes, and Short Order sections that distill formulas, such as those for Lemon and Basil Pilaf and Marinated Chickpea Salad, into get-the-drill-quickly paragraphs. Among the fuller-dress recipes, readers will surely want to try Beef and Caramelized Onion Couscous Salad, Crispy Spiced Thai Chicken, and Seared Salmon on Coconut Spinach, among others. Sweets, including Burnt Vanilla Creams and Chocolate Honey Snaps, are also delicious and easily accomplished. With truly useful tips (cut overlong cooked noodles to make them more manageable is one why-didn't-I-think-of-that example), an oversize bravura design, and color photos throughout, the book shows and tells how to cook with the greatest ease. --Arthur Boehm
Book Description
In Off the Shelf, Australia's bestselling food writer Donna Hay shows you how to fill your pantry with convenient and basic ingredients. Save time with these easy to put together recipes -- for everyday meals or special occasions, and especially when unexpected guests arrive.
Off the Shelf is packed with the information and inspiration to create a great meal at short notice -- anything from a simple pasta dish or the slippery slurp of Asian-inspired noodles to a tempting berry tart. All you need is a well-stocked pantry and a handful of fresh ingredients.
An essential handbook for everyone who loves to cook and to eat.
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a friend's rec.......2007-08-23
Amazing book design, even more amazing food........2007-03-02
Ok.......2006-12-06
Off The Shelf.......2006-06-07
A wonderful cookbook even my boyfriend can use!.......2004-12-15
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Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles and Techniques
Klaus Pohl , Günter Böckle , and Frank J. van der Linden Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 3540243720 |
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This textbook addresses students, professionals, lecturers and researchers interested in software product line engineering. With more than 100 examples and about 150 illustrations, the authors describe in detail the essential foundations, principles and techniques of software product line engineering.
The authors are professionals and researchers who significantly influenced the software product line engineering paradigm and successfully applied software product line engineering principles in industry. They have structured this textbook around a comprehensive product line framework.
Software product line engineering has proven to be the paradigm for developing a diversity of software products and software-intensive systems in shorter time, at lower cost, and with higher quality. It facilitates platform-based development and mass customisation. The authors elaborate on the two key principles behind software product line engineering: (1) the separation of software development in two distinct processes, domain and application engineering; (2) the explicit definition and management of the variability of the product line across all development artefacts.
As a student, you will find a detailed description of the key processes, their activities and underlying techniques for defining and managing software product line artefacts. As a researcher or lecturer, you will find a comprehensive discussion of the state of the art organised around the comprehensive framework. As a professional, you will find guidelines for introducing this paradigm in your company and an overview of industrial experiences with software product line engineering.
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For the classroom only..........2005-11-30
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Off the shelf and into yourself: Getting more from God's Word (SonPower youth publication)
Terry Hall Manufacturer: Victor Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0882075896 |
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Complete Guide to Convenience Food Counts : Using Off-the-Shelf Foods to Create Delicious, Healthy Meals
Lee Ann Holzmeister Manufacturer: American Diabetes Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 1580400426 |
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With less and less time available to cook at home, more and more people are turning to alternative sources for meals. Diabetes Convenience Food Menus is packed with helpful information such as nutrition facts on pre-prepared and packaged meals commonly available at grocery and convenience stores; how to prepare balanced, healthy meals using convenience foods; and sample menus using convenience foods.
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Where are my brands?.......2007-04-06
A must-have for food exchange diet plans!.......2005-09-26
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Leader's guide for group study of Off the shelf and into yourself
Terry Hall Manufacturer: Victor Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0882076256 |
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Wisdom for a Lifetime: How to Get the Bible Off the Shelf and into Your Hands
Alden Studebaker Manufacturer: Unity Books (Unity School of Christianity) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0871592061 |
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Studebaker provides nine different ways to approach bible study (from historical to allegorical) but concentrates on the metaphysical interpretation. Contained within this informative, wise, and often humorous book is a guide to open hidden meanings and symbols in passages as well as information on how to select a Bible; how to use Bible concordances, dictionaries, commentaries, atlases; how to create a study guide; and more.Customer Reviews:
Unlock the Wisdom for Yourself.......2000-10-16
Bringing Gods words into my family's life.......2000-10-14
The reviewer who claims to be a Unity Minister clearly does not understand those of us who every Sunday sit and listen to Ministers who read and study the good book everyday. The reviewer needs to spend more time LISTENING to the flock than listening to himself.
Thanks again Alden Studebaker, your book has opened up a new begining for my family.
A Good Book on the Good Book.......2000-10-09
When you pick up a Bible, it can seem daunting but author Studebaker assures us that there are many things you can do to ease the pain. He trains the reader on how to select a Bible, how to find supplementary books to provide special insights, and then gives, rather remarkably, I think, lenses by which the reader can practice seeing a Bible passage from NINE different points of view.
The main focus, all the time, is to help the reader want to use the Bible to find answers to his or her life questions. I find this extraordinary. I also love the fine balance between intellect and intuition this book advocates. To me, scripture of any kind deserves both.
There is a reviewer who claims to be a "Unity minister" and yet shows little understanding of this balance in his review of this book. Just because Studebaker recommends Bibles who have more than one translator, doesn't mean he doesn't find the Lamsa version useful. In fact, he says that he does. I'm a Lamsa fan myself but this doesn't keep me from realizing that it is unlikely that his version came from an original Aramaic text. That said, his Bible is still fresh and insightful. What's more, Studebaker nevers says you shouldn't use a Bible outside of his "recommended list." In fact, he DOES say that he recommends that we choose whatever version we will actually read!
Also, to say that the Lamsa Bible is loved by "all Truth students" is gross exaggeration. It is simply not true.
The reviewer's comments are so out of place and irrelevant to the book in question that I wonder if he may not have a special agenda; I do smell a vendetta against the author! For example, the "wisdom" the reviewer objects to is never intended to be the wisdom of Studebaker's book but the wisdom of the Bible. This is so obvious--but not to our reviewer. What he erroneously accuses Studebaker of doing in his book, our reviewer demonstrates in his review, namely nitpicking and losing his spiritual focus!
I, also a Unity minister, Bible interpreter, and Lamsa fan, strongly recommend WISDOM FOR A LIFETIME as the best book out there on how to get the Bible off the shelf and into your hands!
A Boon to Bible Readers (Or Non-Readers).......2000-10-09
Wisdom or Knowledge?.......2000-03-16
Charles Fillmore, the father of the Unity movement, defines wisdom as "Intuitive knowing; spiritual intuition; the voice of God within as the source of our understanding..." and of knowledge he says, "Intellectual knowledge is independent of feeling; it is literal knowledge without consideration of Spirit."
The author of this book, Unity minister Alden Studebaker, seems to have confused the two in his book, Wisdom for a Lifetime. Entirely too much of this text (better than half) has to do with the author's criteria for selecting what he considers a "recommended" translation of the Bible and his methodology for studying it. Any Unity student knows that Bible study is guided by Spirit, not directed through adherence to "guidelines".
He states that in choosing a "recommended" translation we immediately reject any Bible version translated by one man. He makes special mention of the Lamsa Bible (used for decades in Unity and loved by all Truth students) as a translation not "recommended" under his criteria. His reasoning? "Two heads are better than one!" Well, if we follow this logic then we should reject each of the Prophets (only one head) and the work of Unity's Charles Fillmore (only one head) such as the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary, as lacking the insight afforded by another head. I'm sure that also means we must reject Jesus the Christ as well (after all, he only had one head)!
There are many Bibles out there translated by one man, all of them very scholarly and above this kind of criticism. Translation by committee is obviously more important to the author than the revelation of one Divinely Inspired translator. In this implication, author Studebaker, as a Unity minister, shows that he has lost his spiritual focus. Unity is all about individual revelation and personal spiritual direction!
In Unity, we can only understand the Bible and benefit from it through the eyes of Spirit, not through nitpicking and hair-splitting of the letter!
I had high hopes that this book would continue in the tradition of the great classic Unity works of Elizabeth Sand Turner (whose superb set of 3 books on the Bible are staples in any Truth library) but I was sorely disappointed.
I would advise Truth Students to stick with Charles Fillmore's Metaphysical Bible Dictionary and The Revealing Word, and Elizabeth Sand Turner's Let There Be Light, Your Hope of Glory, and Be Ye Transformed. These five books, along with a good Bible (KJV, RSV, Lamsa, or whichever translation you are guided to by Spirit) will provide all the tools any Unity student could possibly need.
As a Unity minister myself, I cannot recommend this book to anyone, because while it is full of knowledge, it is sorely lacking in wisdom.
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Boatowner's Weekend Woodworking
Garth Graves Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0070246963 |
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Garth Graves' clearly illustrated guide to doing woodwork on your boat will take you, step-by-step, through weekend projects like these: Building rails, coamings, ladders, hatches, shelves; Bug-proofing your boat with a set of screens; Adding shelves and cabinets; Replacing old, worn-out wooden parts.Customer Reviews:
wasted weekend.......2004-09-09
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Building Storage with Style: 20 Great-Looking Projects from Off-the-Shelf Lumber
Clarke Snell , and Lisa Mandle Manufacturer: Lark Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1579907377 |
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