Course Literature

Course Book

P. Ammann and J. Offutt, Introduction to Software Testing, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-17201-2. As a KTH student, you should be able to download a free .pdf copy of this from KTH library.

Additional literature

You may like to do further background reading, during the course or at a later date (e.g. in your first testing job).

A highly recommended complement to Ammann and Offutt (but not necessary for the course) is:

R. Bierig, S. Brown, E. Galvan and J. Timoney, Essentials of Software Testing, Cambridge University Press, 1st edition, 2022.

The strength of this book is its hands-on approach to show you how to apply the most basic theoretical approaches, such as: boundary value, partition and random testing in real life.

The following texts can also be recommended for more specialist testing topics:

• Y. Lei et al. IPOG: A General Strategy for T-Way Software Testing, ECBS '07, IEEE.
• G. Fraser et al., Testing with model checkers: a Survey, 2007.
• Model-Based Testing Essentials - Guide to the ISTQB Certified Model-Based Tester: Foundation Level, Model-based testing: Kramer, Anne ; Legeard, Bruno ; Bazzana, Gualtiero ; Binder, Robert V, John Wiley and Sons,  2016, download a free .pdf copy of this from KTH library.
• Context-driven school of testing: C. Kaner, J. Bach, B. Pettichord, Lessons Learned in Software Testing, a Context-Driven Approach, Wiley, 2001.
• Quality school of testing: E. Kit, Software Testing in the Real World, Addison Wesley, 1995.
• Standards school of testing: W. Hetzel, The Complete Guide to Software Testing, Wiley, 1993.
• Agile school of testing: L. Crispin and J. Gregory, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, Addison Wesley, 2009.
• Code Coverage and Test Automation: State of the Art, K. Meinke, 2021

Links

Lecture 1: An IEEE survey of software failures in 2018. How many of these could have been avoided by better testing?

Lecture 1: Here is an interesting youtube video about the Toyota unintended acceleration case by Phil Koopman

Lecture 3: Here is a link to a JUnit tutorial on Tutorialspoint.

Lecture 4, Lab 2: Here is an interesting youtube video about JML. Here is a very detailed tutorial about JML. Here is a link to the UML syntax.

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