
1. | ![]() Advanced Software Testing Vol. 1 By: Rex Black Publisher: Rocky Nook Publication Date: 15-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 03-FEB-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Software Testing Vol. 1
This book is written for the test analyst who wants to achieve advanced skills in test analysis, design, and execution. With a hands-on, exercise-rich approach, this book teaches you how to define and carry out the tasks required to put a test strategy into action. Learn how to analyze the system, taking into account the user ™s quality expectations. Additionally, learn how to evaluate system requirements as part of formal and informal reviews, using an understanding of the business domain to determine requirement validity. You will be able to analyze, design, implement, and execute tests,...
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This book teaches test managers what they need to know to achieve advanced skills in test estimation, test planning, test monitoring, and test control. Readers will learn how to define the overall testing goals and strategies for the systems being tested.
This hands-on, exercise-rich book provides experience with planning, scheduling, and tracking these tasks. You'll be able to describe and organize the necessary activities as well as learn to select, acquire, and assign adequate resources for testing tasks. Learn how to form, organize, and lead testing teams Master the organizing of...
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Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love By: Roman Pichler Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 05-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 28-JUL-2009 | Overview: Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love This book is the product owner’s
guide to creating successful products with Scrum, and the first
book solely devoted to agile product management. The book discusses
the role of the product owner in detail together with helpful
concepts and techniques including envisioning the product, stocking
and grooming the product backlog, planning and tracking the
project, working with the team on a day-to-day basis, and
transitioning into the new role. This practical guide enables the
reader to apply agile product management techniques effectively in
Scrum....
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4. | ![]() Automotive SPICE in Practice: Surviving Interpretation and Assessment By: Klaus Hoermann; Markus Mueller; Lars Dittmann; Joerg Zimmer Publisher: Rocky Nook Publication Date: 01-JUL-2008 Insert Date: 30-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Automotive SPICE in Practice: Surviving Interpretation and Assessment
Automotive SPICE is a framework for designing and assessing software development processes. If implemented effectively, it leads to better processes and better product quality. It also helps to improve the cooperation among complex supply chains and between globally distributed development and engineering centers.
Automotive SPICE has been derived from the ISO/IEC 15504 standard, also known as SPICE. It has been developed under the Automotive SPICE initiative by the consensus of several major car manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, Ford, Fiat, Daimler, Porsche, Volkswagen, and Volvo. Today,...
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5. | ![]() Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed By: Barry Boehm; Richard Turner Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 11-AUG-2003 Insert Date: 19-SEP-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed
"Being a certified bibliophile and a professional geek, I have
more shelf space devoted to books on software methods than any
reasonable human should possess. Balancing Agility and
Discipline has a prominent place in that section of my
library, because it has helped me sort through the noise and smoke
of the current method wars."
--From the Foreword by Grady Booch
"This is an outstanding book on an emotionally complicated
topic. I applaud the authors for the care with which they have
handled the subject."
--From the Foreword by Alistair Cockburn
"The authors have done a...
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6. | Overview: Beautiful Teams
What's it like to work on a great software development team facing
an impossible problem? How do you build an effective team? Can a
group of people who don't get along still build good software? How
does a team leader keep everyone on track when the stakes are high
and the schedule is tight?
Beautiful Teams takes you behind the scenes with some of
the most interesting teams in software engineering history. You'll
learn from veteran team leaders' successes and failures, told
through a series of engaging personal stories -- and interviews --
by leading programmers, architects, project...
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7. | ![]() By: Chris Crawford Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 18-JUN-2003 Insert Date: 27-JUN-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Chris Crawford on Game Design Chris Crawford on Game Design is all about the
foundational skills behind the design and architecture of a game.
Without these skills, designers and developers lack the
understanding to work with the tools and techniques used in the
industry today. Chris Crawford, the most highly sought after expert
in this area, brings an intense opinion piece full of personality
and flare like no other person in this industry can. He explains
the foundational and fundamental concepts needed to get the most
out of game development today. An exceptional precursor to the two
books soon to be published by New...
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8. | ![]() Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship By: Robert C. Martin Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 01-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 24-JUN-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it
can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year,
countless hours and significant resources are lost because of
poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that
way.
Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary
paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software
Craftsmanship. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues
from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning
code “on the fly” into a book that will instill...
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9. | ![]() Cleanroom Software Engineering: Technology and Process By: Stacy J. Prowell; Carmen J. Trammell; Richard C. Linger; Jesse H. Poore Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 09-MAR-1999 Insert Date: 15-JUN-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cleanroom Software Engineering: Technology and Process This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
Cleanroom software engineering is a process
for developing and certifying high-reliability software. Combining
theory-based engineering technologies in project management,
incremental development, software specification and design,
correctness verification, and statistical quality certification,
the Cleanroom process answers today's call for more reliable
software and provides methods for more cost-effective software
development.
Cleanroom originated with Harlan D. Mills,
an IBM Fellow and a visionary in software engineering. Written...
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10. | ![]() CMMI: Capability Maturity Model Integration A Process Improvement Approach By: Ralf Kneuper Publisher: Rocky Nook Publication Date: 28-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CMMI: Capability Maturity Model Integration A Process Improvement Approach
CMMI is a well-known and standardized model for assessing and improving software and systems development processes. It can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. CMMI was developed at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI). The current version, 1.2, was published in 2006 and is being adopted worldwide.
This book provides hands-on experience and will help the reader to gain an understanding of CMMI. It is an introduction to the model and its fundamental ideas. Through numerous examples, it helps the reader to get...
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