Software Testing Fundamentals: Methods and Metrics -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT TH E AUTHOR -- I NTRODUCT ION -- What This Book Is About -- Industry and Technology Trends: Why I Think ItÌs Time to Publish This Book -- Changing Times -- Scope of This Book and Who Will Find It Useful -- How This Book Is Organized -- The Standard for Definitions in This Book -- CHAPTER 1: The State of Software Testing Today -- A Quick Look at How We Got Where We Are -- The Challenges a Tester Faces Today -- Summary -- CHAPTER 2: Maintaining Quality Assurance in TodayÌs Software Testing Environment -- What's Wrong with This Picture? -- Problems with Traditional Quality Assurance -- WhatÌs Not Working: The Traditional Tools for Controlling Quality -- Solution: Improving the Quality Process -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3: Approaches to Managing Software Testing -- The I-Feel-Lucky Approach to Software Development -- Some Myths about Art, Science, and Software -- The Engineering Approach -- The Eclectic Approach to Integration and Testing: Balancing Art and Engineering -- Current Testing Strategies -- The Best Approach -- Summary -- CHAPTER 4: The Most Important Tests ( MITs) Method -- Overview of MITs -- The Steps for the MITs Method -- Real-World Example: Heavyweight, Middleweight, and Lightweight Development Efforts -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5: Fundamental Metrics for Software Testing -- Measures and Metrics -- What to Measure in Software Testing -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6: The Test Inventory -- The Goal: A Successful Test Effort -- Planning for Adequate Testing: How Much Is Enough? -- Determining the Scope of Testing: How Big Is It? -- Reasons for Using an Inventory -- The Sources of the Tests on the Inventory -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7: How to Build a Test Inventory -- Starting with the Requirements -- Identifying and Listing the Test Environments.

Adding Detail and Process Layers -- Summary -- For Further Exploration -- CHAPTER 8: Tools to Automate the Test Inventory -- The Evolving Test Inventory -- Summary -- CHAPTER 9: Risk Analysis -- The Risk Analysis Process in Brief -- Benefits of Risk Analysis -- Project Management Strategies and Risk -- MITs Risk Analysis -- Case Study: The 401(k) Web Project -- Summary -- CHAPTER 10: Applied Risk Analysis -- Applying Risk Analysis to the Inventory -- Risk Criteria for Picking Tests -- Summary -- CHAPTER 11: Path Analysis -- The Legend of the Maze of the Minotaur -- Calculating the Number of Paths through a System -- Summary -- Path Analysis Samples for Further Exploration -- CHAPTER 12: Applied Path Analysis -- Correcting Problems with Depth Perception: Or How This All Got Started -- Divide and Conquer -- The Paths Not Counted -- Building Path Test Estimates Quickly -- Path and Data Dependencies -- Summary -- CHAPTER 13: Data Analysis Techniques -- Testing Data Input by Users (the GUI) -- Boundary Value Analysis -- Caveats -- Summary -- CHAPTER 14: What Our Analysis Tells Us and WhatÌs in Store in the Near Future -- Testing: The Next Generation -- APPENDIX A: Answers to Exercises -- Chapter 7: How to Build a Test Inventory -- Chapter 11: Path Analysis -- APPENDIX B: Software Testing Questionnaire, Survey, and Results -- Making Your Benchmark -- The Test Questionnaire -- The State of Knowledge in Commercial Software Testing -- Results of the Seminar Evaluations -- Results of the Written Test Survey -- Results of the Voice Survey -- Conclusions Drawn from the Surveys -- APPENDIX C: Test Collateral Samples and Templates -- Sample Memo to Describe the Interview Process -- Sample Project Inventory and Test Questionnaire for the Interviews -- References -- Glossary -- I N DEX.