Web links about testing

Magazines

• Testing Experience is a new magazinbe for testers, since 2008.
  
• QBIT-Testing www.qbit-testing.com is a UK based consulting and training company. They publish the magazine "Professional Tester" (for free subscriptions, contact www.professionaltester.com .
• Better Software Magazine, former Software Testing and Quality Engineering Magazine www.bettersoftware.com is a very practical magazine in the area. They also operate a web site with more info and discussions: www.stickyminds.com.
• Methods and Tools Newsletter

Other links

• The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) defines knowledge requirements and a certification scheme for software testers. Go and take an exam! This is the web page of the Norwegian Testing Board.
• Insite Consulting in Bergen has resources for test management.
• Kantega AS in Trondheim has resources for test management.
• Sogeti has all details of the Test Process Improvement model (TPI).
• Nohau AS in Sweden supplies tools, consulting and training on testing real time and embedded systems.
• The Danish site www.softwaretest.dk, maintained by Klaus Olsen, is the entry point to many interesting software testing links and contains a Danish Terminology.
• The British Computer Society Working Group for Software Testing Standards: www.testingstandards.co.uk/ . They develop standards for nonfunctional testing. Look at the draft standards on their web site, and contribute with comments and input!
• Elisabeth Hendrickson, founder of Quality Tree Software, runs a web site with lots of testing heuristics and discussions, especially about agile testing methods.
• Vipul Kocher, founder of Pure Testing, an Indian test consultancy, has a web site explaining testing patters (Q-Patterns).
  
• International Standards on Software Engineering, like ISO/IEC 12207, ISO/IEC 14598 series, ISO/IEC 29119 and ISO/IEC 9126 are developed and enhanced by ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7: SC7 WebSite: www.jtc1-sc7.org
• FAQs of the internet news group comp.software.testing: www.faqs.org/faqs/software-eng/testing-faq/, http://www.rstcorp.com/c.s.t.faq.html
• Software Research www.soft.com organized the Quality Week conferences. They are also a test consultancy and test tool supplier. Have a look at their Software Quality Hot list www.soft.com/Institute/HotList/ for more than 2400 interesting links about quality and testing! They publish a monthly free e-mail newsletter.
• Quality Logic: A company specializing in standard test suites. For phone, fax, scanning, and printer interfaces. www.qualitylogic.com
• Hung Nguyen, author (with Cem Kaner) of "Testing Computer Software" and author of "Testing Applications on the Web", runs a site with lots of papers and references: www.qacity.com.
• LogicaCMG, a Dutch consulting company, has a good method for test automation called TestFrame. It is independent of the tools you use. www.logicacmg.com
• A German site about advanced testing of real time systems: www.systematic-testing.com/. The author, Joachim Wegener, also developed a freeware tool for generating combination test cases, the Classification Tree Editor (CTE).
• Bret Pettichord, one of the authors of "Lessons Learned in Software Testing", has a home page with many useful texts and links.
• Cem Kaner www.badsoftware.com is a lawyer, professor at Florida Polytechnic and software test specialist. Author of the books "Testing Computer Software", "Bad Software" and, with Bach and Pettichord, "Lessons Learned in Software Testing". The "Bad Software" book is about lack of quality in consumer software and legal implications. He has written a lot of good papers. See some at www.kaner.com.
• Brian Marick has an extensive web page with testing concepts: www.exemplar.com.
• The Association for Software Testing (AST) is a recently formed nonprofit professional organization dedicated at advancing the understanding and practice of software testing. It is mostly based in the USA.Context driven testing is a way to make sure testing conforms to the requirements of the environment. The principles are laid out at their web site, including links to the authors of important testing books.
• Disha Technologies supplies independent and offshoring testing services.
• Allied Testing supplies independent and offshoring testing services based on a lab in Russia.
• SQA Partners supplies testing services for localisation and internationalisation.
• SEPT supplies information about Software Engineering Standards.
• Test automation requires construction of a suitable framework. This company may help you.
  

Seminar providers

• Soft-Ed Oy organizes testing seminars in Finland.
• Imbus AG (Germany) offer software testing seminars where I cooperate as an instructor. There are special seminars about testing real time systems and embedded systems. They also offer accredited ISTQB certification seminars, in German and English.
  
• Knowledge Department organizes seminars on software quality and software testing in Germany and Austria.
• ITQ organizes seminars about software quality assurance and testing in Sweden.
• Best-Testing from Israel has a very good teacher for test management related issues: Alon Linetzki.
  
• Nohau AS in Sweden supplies tools, consulting and training on testing real time and embedded
  
• Grove consulting runs excellent software testing seminars mainly in the UK, but some times in Norway. The have seminars for Foundation and Advanced levels of the ISTQB certification, as well as one of the best seminars about test automation.
• Kantega AS in Trondheim, Norway, arranges courses in performance testing as well as ISTQB Foundaiton seminars.
  
• Software Quality Engineering in the USA as well as SQE Europe organize conferences and specialized testing seminars.
• Leysen Inc. is a UK-based company distributing self study courses on CD-ROM. You can check yourself on an evaluation copy

Tester certification

There exists an international certification scheme for software tester knowledge. You get more information about this on International Software Tester Qualifications Board. The author of these pages is chairman of the Norwegian Board. ISTQB Norway information.

Test Tools

• Softwareqatest.com has lots of good tool links. Here is the special link to testing tools.
• A list of open source testing tools is on www.opensourcetesting.org. Other sites for open source tools are www.freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net.
• http://www.testingfaqs.org/tools.htm has a tool supplier list.
• The site www.aptest.com has many interesting software testing links, especially to tools.
• A Link to CASE tools. Many of these may be useful for testers.
• IPL, www.ipl.com has tools for unit and integration test of Ada, C, C++ programs. Some good papers about unit testing are on their web site.
• LDRA, www.ldra.com has static analysis, test harness generator and coverage analysis tools many languages and platforrs. Some good papers about unit testing are on their web site.
• Imbus AG (Germany) has an advanced and flexible flexible solution for test management: imbus TestBench. They have many links to other tool suppliers. They also offer software testing seminars where I cooperate as an instructor. There are special seminars about testing real time systems and embedded systems. Their marketing director (together with Prof. Andreas Spillner from Bremen university) has written the German book "Basiswissen Software Testing", containing the curriculum for the ISTQB foundation level certificate for software testing. The book has also been published in Dutch and is soon to be published in English with my translation.www.imbus.de
• Autotestco, www.autotestco.com , has good links to test tools suppliers, but also to seminar companies in the USA, as well as a book about test automation.
• Ovum Ltd. continually evaluates the most used testing tools. You can order their (expensive) report "Ovum Evaluates: Software Testing Tools", as well as continuous updates.
• The CASEMAKER tool is an efficient solution to making test cases using typical black box test design methods.
• Leirios Technologies supplies a model based testing tool, generating test cases automatically from specifications.
  
  

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