Curious what testing/tech books community has read or currently reading?

[nat (Nataliia Burmei)]

I think it’s been a while I read a testing book. I do read a lot of blogposts, listen to podcasts or watch YouTube videos and guides.

However, I wonder what testing or technical books community has recently read or currently reading? Would love to capture a couple of good recommendations to deep dive into topic (I am open to different topics).

[kristof (Kristof Van Kriekingen)]

@nat

wonder what testing or technical books community has recently read or currently reading?

I got a book ready to be read: Black Hat Graphql by Aleks & Farhi

[sebastian_solidwork (Sebastian Stautz)]

It is still in the making, I’m looking forward to this.
It should come this year.

Taking Testing Seriously: The Rapid Software Testing Approach (Hardcover) |...

[parwalrahul (Rahul Parwal)]

I am reading “Money Works”.

Its a finance book but is helping me learn a lot of mistakes that people make due to assumptions (just like it happens in the testing world).

It’s helping me get better with my finances.

[jesper (Jesper Ottosen)]

Alice & Bob learns secure coding
Alice & Bob learns application security

‘Alice and Bob Learn’ Book Series

[lili (Elisse)]

I’m reading Evil by Design by Chris Nodder, just a few chapters in and it’s already a favorite!

[komalgc (Komal chowdhary)]

I am currently reading Hooked : How to build Habit forming products by Nir Eyal
As a tester, it’s helping me go beyond functional checks…Im now testing emotional triggers, reward patterns, and user habits. Great for building test scenarios around user behavior, not just features…

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products: Eyal, Nir: 8601416359618:...

[jmosley5 (Judy Mosley)]

I really appreciate “The Complete Software Tester” by Kristin Jackvony. Incredibly helpful for beginning testers as well as providing insights for seasoned testers!

[danuk (Dan)]

I’m reading The Phoenix Project - a hugely helpful insight into the world of DevOps

[thomas74 (Thomas Dietsch)]

I found a lot of value in Explore It! by Elisabeth Hendrickson. It is a great book about exploratory testing.

[al8xr (Oleksandr Romanov)]

I read a lot of books (on testing / technology)

Reading now:

• Contract Testing in Action - contract testing with Pact.
• Blockchain, Crypto and DeFi: Bridging Finance and Technology

Read not so long ago:

• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware - fantastic book on thinking and learning tip and tricks
• Modern Game Testing: Learn how to test games like a pro, optimize testing effort, and skyrocket your QA career - an intro to game testing
• Software Testing with Generative AI - great practical book on how actually use LLMs for software testing

Plus a bunch of books on Rust and Python.

[andres_gr (Andres Gomez Ruiz)]

My recomendation is not a testing book, it is actually about bussineess. It is called “The Lean Startup” by Eric Reis.

I like how he aporaches the idea to create a minimum viable product and decide what changes to adopt based on proving that product in real scenario.

In my case I use this in the field of Software Testing making the process of testing, write bug tickets and reporting an unique product. I use to do this in quite raw manner at the beginning of the project, almost going into the smoke test techniques and then develope the process based on feedbacks from Clients/Leader/Boss/Colleages…

[ujjwal.singh (Ujjwal Kumar Singh)]

I have recently started reading this book and have completed a few chapters.

[nat (Nataliia Burmei)]

Always loved security testing. I like how this book is described - Written by hackers for hackers, I can feel community vibe in it.

[nat (Nataliia Burmei)]

@parwalrahul

It’s helping me get better with my finances.

I also enjoyed Psychology of money. Shows you a lot that many money decisions are behaviour-driven.

[nat (Nataliia Burmei)]

@danuk

I’m reading The Phoenix Project - a hugely helpful insight into the world of DevOps

I am tempted to read DevOps handbook by the same author(s) that is currently on my desk.

[nat (Nataliia Burmei)]

Thank you everyone for sharing your reads. Such a great pile. I have bookmarked a few I am keen to explore. Happy reading everyone.

[stuthomas (Stuart Thomas)]

There are many, but looking up at my shelf my most recommended are:

• Everything by Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin - I consider “Agile Testing Condensed” essential reading that is suitable for all interested in Quality and Testing.

• Contract Testing in Action by Marie Cruz and Lewis Prescott

• Engineering Management for the Rest of Us - Sarah Drasner

• Leading Quality - Ronald Cummings-John and Owais Peer

[mikeharris]

I am reviewing a pre-publication copy of John Willis’ history of AI: ‘Rebels of Reason’. I am learning so much because by understanding how AI was created, I am getting a better understanding of AI. I would recommend buying it when it is published: A review of reviewing “Rebels of Reason - The Long Road from Aristotle to ChatGPT & AI’s Heroes Who Kept the Faith” by John Willis with Derek Lewis

[sharmon (Sean H)]

One of the absolute best resources I have gone through again and again is the book “Software Engineering at Google.” Majority of the book is dedicated to testing and highlighting it’s need for it in small and big ways. It’s more focused on the mindset and how they got to these conclusions instead of the how to. It’s been a fantastic read. (Read it free here but totally worth the purchase) Software Engineering at Google

The follow up to that is the Site Reliability Engineer book. It’s about taking that Engineer part around testing, reliability much farther Google SRE - Site reliability engineering book Google index

When it comes to more of the specific types of testing techniques I really enjoyed Full Stack Testing - Full Stack Testing[Book]