How to Read This Book

How to Read This Book

This book is designed to permit selective reading. Most readers should begin with Part I, which presents fundamental principles in a coherent framework and lays the groundwork for understanding the strengths and weaknesses of individual techniques and their application in an effective software process. Part II brings together basic technical background for many testing and analysis methods. Those interested in particular methods may proceed directly to the relevant chapters in Part III of the book. Where there are dependencies, the Required Background section at the beginning of a chapter indicates what should be read in preparation. Part IV discusses how to design a systematic testing and analysis process and incorporates it into an overall development process, and may be read either before or after Part III.

Readers new to the field of software test and analysis can obtain an overview by reading Chapters

1	Software Test and Analysis in a nutshell
2	A Framework for Test and Analysis
4	Test and Analysis Activities within a Software Process 10 Functional Testing
11	Combinatorial Testing
14	Model-Based Testing
15	Testing Object-Oriented Software
17	Test Execution
18	Inspection
19	Program Analysis
20	Planning and Monitoring the Process

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