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ISTQB Related Articles | Articles Referenced in ISTQB Syllabi
ISTQB Related Books | Books Referenced in ISTQB Syllabi

ISTQB Related Articles

• Henrik Andersson, “A way to get better software“, from Testing Experience, September 2009
• Graham Bath, “The Benefits of Modeling in a Large-Scale Test Integration Project: A case study“, from Testing Experience, September 2008
• Rex Black, “ISTQB® Certification: Why You Need It and How to Get It“, from Testing Experience, March 2008
• Rex Black, “Advanced Software Test Design Techniques: Use Cases“, from Testing Experience, December 2009
• Rex Black, “Advanced Software Test Design Techniques, State Diagrams, State Tables and Switch Coverage“
• Rex Black, “Advanced Software Test Design Techniques, Decision Tables and Cause-Effect Graphs“, from Testing Experience, June 2009
• Rex Black, “A Risk Based Testing: What It Is and How You Can Benefit“, from Testing Experience, June 2009
• Rex Black, “Interview with Chris O’Malley“, from Testing Experience, March 2010
• Rex Black, “Two Weeks to Better Testing this Summer“, from Testing Experience, September 2008
• Rex Black, “How Agile Methodologies Challenge Testing“, from Testing Experience, September 2009
• Monique Blaschke, Michael Philipp, Tomas Schweigert, “The Test SPICE Approach – Test process assessments follow in the footsteps of software process assessments“, from Testing Experience, December 2009
• Chen Bressler, “Quality, Excellence and Cost Effectiveness – Outsourcing and Testing Centers in the “Silicon Wadi“”, from Testing Experience, March 2009
• James Christie, “The Seductive and Dangerous V-Model“, from Testing Experience, December 2008
• Gerald D. Everett, “The Value of Software Testing to Business: The Dead Moose on the Table“, from Testing Experience, June 2008
• Derk-Jan de Grood, “Result-driven Testing“, from Testing Experience, March 2008
• Derk-Jan de Grood, “We Always Use Process Cycle Testing (PCT) – The Need for Selecting The Right Test Design Techniques“, from Testing Experience, March 2010
• Jens Fricke & Thomas Niess, “Test 2.0 – Advanced Testing Techniques in Life Insurance – A New Quality in Mathematical Testing of Portfolio Management Systems in Life Insurance“, from Testing Experience, March 2010
• Sandra Güttig, Martin Großmann & Heiner Grottendieck, “How do you become an Agile tester?”, from Testing Experience, June 2011
• “Interview to Doron Reuveni“, from Testing Experience, March 2009
• “Interview to Mike Smith“, from Testing Experience, June 2009
• “Interview to Norbert Bochynek“, from Testing Experience, September 2008
• “Interview to Andreas Golze and Stephan Goericke“, from Testing Experience, December 2008
• Bernard Homès, “IEEE829:2008 A major change of focus“, from Testing Experience, December 2009
• Nisha Dhiraj Kale, “The key principle of testing “Testing is context dependent“”, from Testing Experience, March 2011
• Andrey Konushin, “Personnel evaluation based on tests“, from Testing Experience, September 2008
• Nick Jenkins, “The High-Velocity Testing Organization“, from Testing Experience, June 2011
• Julie Lacroix, “Testing in the Pharmaceutical Contract Research Organization Domain“, from Testing Experience, March 2011
• James Lyndsay, “Why can’t Testers Code?”, from Testing Experience, March 2008
• Armin Metzger, Jörn Münzel, Dr. Frank Simon & Dr. Stephan Weißleder, “ISTQB® Expert Level: Test Management for Complex Systems“, from Testing Experience, December 2011
• Philippe Roux-Salembien, Damien Mathieu, Franck Launay & Grégory Heitz, “MandaView: modelising test techniques“, from Testing Experience, December 2011
• Hans Schaefer, “What a Tester Should Know, At Any Time, Even After Midnight“, from Testing Experience, March 2008
• Mike Smith, “Putting The ‘Analysis’ In A Test Analyst“, from Testing Experience, March 2008
• Tamás Stöckert, “The Long Way To Become A Tester. My Experience“, from Testing Experience, March 2008
• Ladislau Szilagyi, “Testing Techniques and the Theory of Constraints“, from Testing Experience, September 2008
• Geoff Thompson, “Software Testing – The Future?“, from Testing Experience, September 2008
• Erik van Veenendaal, “Outsourcing; What Does It Mean For Us?“, from Testing Experience, March 2009
• Erik van Veenendaal, “Wanted: Technical Test Analysts“, from Testing Experience, June 2009
• Erik van Veenendaal, “Where are the Non-Functional Requirements?“, from Testing Experience, June 2010
• Erik van Veenendaal, “Improving the testing process using the TMMi“, from Testing Experience, September 2008
• Erik van Veenendaal, “SCRUM & Testing: Back to the Future“, from Testing Experience, September 2009
• Erik van Veenendaal, “Standards: to be used with common sense!“, from Testing Experience, December 2009
• Erik van Veenendaal, “Forgotten tools“, from Testing Experience, December 2010
• Erik van Veenendaal, “Testing at Domains, and the winner is ………“, from Testing Experience, March 2011
• Erik van Veenendaal, “ISTQB® Expert Level “Improving the Testing Process“”, from Testing Experience, June 2011
• Erik van Veenendaal, “The Future of a Tester: Broaden or Specialize“, from Testing Experience, December 2011
• Brian Wells, “The Test Maturity Model Integrated (TMMi®) – Measuring our Capability to Deliver!“, from Testing Experience, September 2008
• Mario Winter, “The new ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level Focus on practical know-how“, from Testing Experience, June 2009
• Peter Zimmerer, “The Value of Testing in 5 Dimensions“, from Testing Experience, September 2010
• Terry Zuo, “A brief introduction to the open-source test management system: TestLink“, from Testing Experience, December 2010

Articles Referenced in ISTQB Syllabi

Expert Level – Improving the Testing Process:

• V.R. Basili, “Software Modeling and Measurement: The Goal Question Metric Paradigm,” Computer Science Technical Report Series, CS-TR-2956 (UMIACS-TR-92-96), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, September, 992.
• V.R. Basili, H. D. Rombach, “The TAME Project: Towards Improvement-Oriented Software Environments”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol.SE-14, no.6, June 1988, pp.758-773.
• V.R. Basili, R.W. Selby, “Data Collection and Analysis in Software Research and Management”, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association and Biomeasure Society, Joint Statistical Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, August 1984.
• R. Basili, D. M. Weiss, “A Methodology for Collecting Valid Software Engineering Data,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. SE-10, no.6, November 1984, pp. 728-738.
• L. Copeland, “When helping doesn’t help”, SQE Magazine, January 2001
• D. Garvin, “What does product quality really mean?”, Sloan Management Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1984
• J. R. Hackman, G. R. Oldham (1976). “Motivation through design of work”. Organizational behaviour and human performance 16: 250–279.
• van Veenendaal, E., “Test Process Improvement Manifesto”, Testing Experience, Dec 2008

Expert Level – Test Management:

• L. Copeland, “When helping doesn’t help”, SQE Magazine, January 2001

ISTQB Related Books

Foundation Level – English Language:

• Rex Black, Erik Van Veenendaal, Dorothy Graham (2012), Foundations of Software Testing – ISTQB^® Certification, 3rd ed., Cengage Learning
• Peter Morgan, Angelina Samaroo,Brian Hambling (2010), Software Testing: An ISTQB^®-ISEB Foundation Guide, British Computer Society
• Andreas Spillner, Tilo Linz and Hans Schaefer (2011), Software Testing Foundations: A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam, Rocky Nook
• Bernard Homès, Fundamentals of Software Testing, ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc

Foundation Level – Other languages:

• Rex Black, Gary Rueda Sandoval (2011), Fundamentos de Pruebas de Software (Spanish Edition)
• Bernard Homès, Les Tests Logiciels: Fondamentaux (French Edition)

Advanced Level – Test Analyst:

• Rex Black (2008), Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB^® Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst, Rocky Nook
• Graham Bath and Judy McKay (2008), The Software Test Engineer’s Handbook: A Study Guide for the ISTQB^® Test Analyst and Technical Analyst Advanced Level Certificates, Rocky Nook

Advanced Level – Technical Test Analyst:

• Rex Black, Jamie Mitchell (2011), Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB^® Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst, Rocky Nook
• Graham Bath and Judy McKay (2008), The Software Test Engineer’s Handbook: A Study Guide for the ISTQB^® Test Analyst and Technical Analyst Advanced Level Certificates, Rocky Nook

Advanced Level – Test Manager:

• Rex Black (2009), Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the ISTQB^® Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager, Rocky Nook
• Rex Black (2008), ISTQB^® Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide, 2nd ed., RBCS
• Andreas Spillner, Tilo Linz, Thomas Rossner and Mario Winter (2007), Software Testing Practice: Test Management: A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam ISTQB^® Advanced Level, Rocky Nook
• Patrick Hendrickx, Chris Van Bael and Alain Bultink (2010), Advanced Test Management Based on the ISTQB^® Syllabus, Ps_Testware

The following books are not related to a particular ISTQB^® Certification Level but they concern Software Testing:

• Anne Mette Jonassen Hass (2008), Guide to Advanced Software Testing, Artech House
• Umar Saeed and Ansur Mahmood (2010), Black Box Testing Strategies For Functional Testing: ISTQB^® Black Box testing Strategies used in Financial Industry for Functional testing, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing

Books Referenced in ISTQB Syllabi

Foundation Level:

• Beizer Boris (1990), Software Testing Techniques (2nd edition), Van Nostrand Reinhold
• Rex Black (2001), Managing the Testing Process (2nd edition), John Wiley & Sons
• Hans Buwalda et al. (2001), Integrated Test Design and Automation, Addison Wesley
• Lee Copeland (2004), A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design, Artech House
• Rick David Craig and Stefan P. Jaskiel (2002), Systematic Software Testing, Artech House
• Mark Fewster and Graham Dorothy (1999), Software Test Automation, Addison Wesley
• Tom Gilb and Dorothy Graham (1993), Software Inspection, Addison Wesley
• Bill Hetzel (1988), Complete Guide to Software Testing, QED
• Cem Kaner, James Bach and Bret Pettticord (2002), Lessons Learned in Software Testing, John Wiley & Sons
• Glenford J. Myers (1979), The Art of Software Testing, John Wiley & Sons
• Erik van Veenendaal (2004), The Testing Practitioner, UTN Publishers

Advanced Level:

• Beizer Boris (1995), Black-box testing, John Wiley & Sons
• Rex Black (2002), Managing the Testing Process (2nd edition), John Wiley & Sons
• Rex Black (2003), Critical Testing Processes, Addison-Wesley
• Rex Black (2007), Pragmatic Software Testing, John Wiley and Sons
• Ilene Burnstein (2003), Practical Software Testing, Springer
• Hans Buwalda (2001) , Integrated Test Design and Automation, Addison-Wesley Longman
• Lee Copeland (2003), A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design, Artech House
• Rick David Craig and Stefan P. Jaskiel (2002), Systematic Software Testing, Artech House
• Paul Gerrard and Neil Thompson (2002), Risk-based e-business testing, Artech House
• Gilb Tom and Graham Dorothy (1993), Software inspection, Addison-Wesley
• Dorothy Graham, Erik van Veenendaal, Isabel Evans, Rex Black (2007) , Foundations of Software Testing, Thomson Learning
• M. Grochmann (1994), Test case design using Classification Trees in conference proceeedings, Star
• Paul C.Jorgensen (2002), Software Testing, a Craftsman’s Approach, 2nd Edition, CRC press
• Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord (2002), Lessons Learned in Software Testing, Wiley
• Tim Koomen and Martin Pol (1999), Test Process Improvement, Addison-Wesley
• Glenford J.Myers (1979) , The Art of Software Testing, John Wiley & Sons
• Martin Pol, Ruud Teunissen and Erik van Veenendaal (2002), Software Testing: A Guide to the Tmap Approach, Addison-Wesley
• Steven Splaine, Stefan P.,Jaskiel (2001), The Web-Testing Handbook, STQE Publishing
• D.H. Stamatis (1995), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, ASQC Quality Press
• Erik van Veenendaal (2002), The Testing Practitioner, UTN Publishing
• James Whittaker (2003), How to Break Software, Addison-Wesley
• James Whittaker and Herbert Thompson (2004), How to Break Software Security, Pearson / Addison-Wesley

Expert Level – Improving the Test Process:

• John Hayes, John Adams and Barrie Hopson (1976), Transition: Understanding & managing personal change
• L. W. Anderson and D. R. Krathwohl (eds) (2001), A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Allyn & Bacon
• Eastwood Atwater (1981), I Hear You, Prentice-Hall
• A. J. Bernstein (2001), Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry, McGraw-Hill Professional
• Rex Black (2003), Critical Testing Processes, Addison-Wesley
• Ilene Burnstein (2003), Practical Software Testing, Springer
• Tony Buzan (1995), The Mindmap Book, BBC-Books
• R. Cialdini (2006), Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Harper Business
• Rick David Craig and Stefan P. Jaskiel (2002), Systematic Software Testing, Artech House
• Lee Copeland (2003), A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design, Artech House
• Isabel Evans (2004), Achieving Software Quality through Teamwork, Artech House
• Stephen Few (2006), Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data, O’Reilly Media
• Milo O. Frank (1990), How to get your point across in 30 seconds or less, Simon & Schuster
• T. Gilb and D. Graham (1993), Software Inspection, Addison-Wesley
• M. Gladwell (2001), The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Little Brown & Co
• Peter Honey and A. Mumford (2002), The Learning Styles Helper’s Guide, Peter Honey Publications
• W. Humphrey (2000), Introduction to the Team Software Process, SEI
• W. Humphrey (1997), Introduction to the Personal Software Process, SEI
• Darrell Huff (1993), How to Lie with Statistics, W.W. Norton
• ISTQB^® Certified Tester Expert Level, Certification Extension Process, Version 1.0, June, 17th 2008 (Available from ISTQB®-Web)
• ISTQB^® Exam Guidelines for Expert Level, Version 1.0, (Available from ISTQB®-Web)
• ITIL (2002), Best Practice for Service Support, Office of Government Commerce
• ITIL (2002), Best Practice for Service Delivery, Office of Government Commerce
• Bob McFeeley/Software Engineering Institute (SEI) (1996), IDEAL: A User’s Guide for Software Process Improvement
• Kaoru Ishikawa (1991), What Is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way, Prentice Hall Business Classics
• Joseph M. Juran and A. Blanton Godfrey (2000), Quality Handbook, McGraw-Hill International Editions
• Naomi Karten (2009), Changing How You Manage and Communicate Change: Focusing on the Human Side of Change, IT Governance Publishing
• John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber (2005), Our Iceberg is Melting, Pan Macmillan
• Tim Koomen and Martin Pol (1999), Test Process Improvement, Addison-Wesley
• Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler (2007), On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss, Scribner Book Company
• A. H. Maslow (1998), Toward a Psychology of Being, Wiley
• A. H. Maslow (1998), Maslow on Management, Wiley
• J.D. Mayer (2004), Emotional intelligence: Key readings on the Mayer and Salovey model, Dude Publishing
• Isabel Briggs Myers (1980), Understanding Personality Type, DaviesBlack Publishing (Reprint edition 1995)
• Richard E. Nance and James D. Arthur (2002), Managing Software Quality: A Measurement Framework for Assessment and Prediction, Springer
• A. Johnston Page and K. B. Rollinson (2008), How we test software at Microsoft, Pub. Microsoft
• M. Pol. and E. van Veenendaal (1998), Structured testing of information systems: an introduction to Tmap^®, Kluwer
• Mike Robson (1995), Problem Solving in Groups, Gower
• Satir V., Banmen, J., Gerber J., Gomori M. (1991), The Satir model: Family therapy and beyond, Science and Behavior Books
• Sogeti (2009), TPI Next – Business Driven Test Process Improvement, UTN Publishing
• Trienekens and van Veenendaal (1997), Software Quality from a Business Perspective, Kluwer
• E. Tufte (1990), Visual Explanations, Graphics Press
• E. Tufte (1997), Envisioning Information, Graphics Press
• Wagner (1996), The Transactional Manager, Spiro Press
• G. Weinberg (1992), Quality Software Management, Vol. 1, Dorset House

Expert level – Test Management:

• Rex Black (2003), Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect, Addison-Wesley
• Rex Black (2009), Managing the Testing Process, Wiley
• Barry Boehm and Richard Turner (2003), Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed, Addison-Wesley
• Fred Brooks (1995), The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 2ed., Addison-Wesley
• Rick David Craig and Stefan P. Jaskiel (2002), Systematic Software Testing, Artech House
• Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (1999), Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2ed., Dorset House
• Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (2003), Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, Dorset House
• Esther Derby and Diany Larsen (2006), Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great, The Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Peter Drucker (2006), The Practice of Management, Harper
• Patricia Ensworth (2001), The Accidental Project Manager: Surviving the Transition from Techie to Manager, Wiley
• Isabel Evans (2004), Achieving Software Quality through Teamwork, Artech House
• Robert Galen (2004), Software Endgames: Eliminating Defects, Controlling Change, And The Countdown To On-time Delivery, Dorset House
• Robert Glass (2002), Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley
• Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster (1999), Software Test Automation, Addison-Wesley
• Kaoru Ishikawa (1991), What Is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way, Prentice Hall Business Classics
• Capers Jones (1993), Assessment and Control of Software Risks, Prentice Hall
• Capers Jones (2007), Estimating Software Costs: Bringing Realism to Estimating, McGraw-Hill
• Capers Jones (2008), Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality, 3ed., McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Stephen Kan (2002), Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, 2ed., Addison-Wesley
• Nancy Leveson (1995), Safeware: System Safety and Computers, Addison-Wesley
• Steve McConnell (1997), Software Project Survival Guide, Microsoft Press
• Steve McConnell (1999), After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering, Microsoft Press
• Judy McKay (2007), Managing the Test People, Rocky Nook
• Isabel Briggs Myers (1980), Understanding Personality Type, Davies-Black Publishing, reprint edition, 1995
• Project Management Institute (2008), A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide), 4ed., Project Management Institute
• Tim Riley and Adam Goucher (2009), Beautiful Testing, O’Reilly
• Johanna Rothman (2004), Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies and Nerds: The Secrets & Science Of Hiring Technical People, Dorset House
• Johanna Rothman (2007), Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Mark Utting and Bruno Legeard (2006), Practical Model-Based Testing: A Tools Approach, Morgan Kaufmann
• Edward Yourdon (2003), Death March, 2ed., Prentice Hall
• James Whittaker (2002), How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing, Addison-Wesley
• Karl Wiegers (1996), Creating a Software Engineering Culture, Dorset House