The most complete book review of all time
After my presentation at PNSQC in October, I was giving away copies of How We Test Software at Microsoft, and Michael Larsen said that if I gave him a copy, he’d review it on his blog. I figured that was better than giving it to someone to sell on ebay, so I took a shot.
Michael responded with the most in depth multi-part book review ever. Seriously, it was pretty cool, and I owe Michael a copy of my next book (which I plan to start writing sometime in 2027).
If you missed it and want a nice recap of the book, here’s the full review index.
Chapter 1: Software Engineering at Microsoft
Chapter 2: Software Test Engineers at Microsoft
Chapter 3: Engineering Life Cycles
Chapter 4: A Practical Approach to Test Case Design
Chapter 5: Functional Testing Techniques
Chapter 6: Structural Testing Techniques
Chapter 7: Analyzing Risk with Code Complexity
Chapter 8: Model-Based Testing
Chapter 9: Managing Bugs and Test Cases
Chapter 11: Non-Functional Testing
Chapter 13: Customer Feedback Systems
Chapter 14: Testing Software Plus Services
Chapter 15: Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Today
Chapter 16: Building the Future
Thanks again to Michael for the in-depth write up. I expect that anyone wanting the short version of hwtsam will be greatly appreciative.