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Hello,

I’m looking for some good recommendations for books to read which are of a technical genre

  1. I have read Jerry Weinbergs Books
  2. James Bach’s
  3. Elizabeth Hendrickson
  4. James Whittaker
  5. Kristin Jackvony
  6. Lena Pejgan Wilberg

Can someone please recommend books that I could read except these, please?

I have considered Mark’s new book on APIs and Nicola Lingdrens books

Any other recommendations, please?

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Being Stuck In A Rut
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Have you read the Agile testing by Lisa Crispin and Jannet Gregory?

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yes I have read agile testing condensed by them.

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The boosk you read are about ‘testing’ are you interested in reading about ‘quality’? If so then I would recommend reading W Edwards Deming’s books: Out of the crisis and the New Economics. I would also suggest skimming one of Juran’s Quality Control Handbooks

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Are the following on your radar?

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Thank you Simon I will add them to my list and will start reading.

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Sure will consider them

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I also see Daniel Knott released a second edition of Hands-On Mobile App Testing.

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Exploratory Testing by maaret on leanpub is good.
Recommend the testability book that @simon_tomes mentioned.

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Have you tried the phoenix project and the unicorn project? Not directly testing related, but I’d recommend it as a must read.

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I just have to say, that’s a pretty good starting list (at least the first 4, I’m not familiar with 5 and 6).

Harry Collins is another author I’ve heard recommended quite a bit but haven’t gotten to yet myself (I’ll be starting with “Artifictional Intelligence”).

The same goes for Daniel Kahneman (e.g. “Thinking Fast and Slow”).

I’m inclined to recommend “The Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, though I found it a little frustrating myself because he repeats a lot of the same points throughout and then also boasts of not having an editor–I think the points could have been made in a book 1/4 the length :roll_eyes:. Still, the points that are made will change the way you think about risk.

Lastly, I found “The Great Post Office Scandal” by Nick Wallis an eye-opening read in terms of the human impact of putting blind trust in software systems.

Note that none of these are strictly about testing but they are certainly related to cultivating a testing mindset.

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I’d second @c32hedge 's endorsement of The Great Post Office Scandal; OTOH, I had problems with Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, though I appear to be in a minority.

I’d suggest that you need to have some reading for relaxation, but choosing that carefully will help in your professional aims in terms of both expanding your soft skillset and, more generally, improving your own command of written language.

My reviews of the two named books are here:
The Great Post Office Scandal; the fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail by Nick Wallis | Deep Waters Reading (wordpress.com)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | Deep Waters Reading (wordpress.com)

And I wrote a blog post a while back on leisure reading for testers which might amuse:
Reading for the curious – Probe probare – to properly test (wordpress.com)

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or in the ebook version at leanpub: Hands-On Mobile App… by Daniel Knott [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]

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Thank you so much I shall read The Post Office Scandal

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Sure will read them. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Thanks–I meant Daniel Kahneman, not Daniel Pink.

Speaking of reading for relaxation, I’ve felt for a long time that the ostensibly-childrens-fiction book “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster is a great book for cultivating a testing mindset. Here’s one of my favorite nuggets:

“That’s absurd,” objected Milo, whose head was spinning from all the numbers and questions.
“That may be true,” [the Dodecahedron] acknowledged, “but it’s completely accurate, and as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you’ll have to make it yourself.”
“All three roads arrive at the same place at the same time,” interrupted Tock, who had patiently been doing the first problem.
“Correct!” shouted the Dodecahedron. “And I’ll take you there myself. Now you can see how important problems are. If you hadn’t done this one properly, you might have gone the wrong way.”
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“But if all the roads arrive at the same place at the same time, then aren’t they all the right way?” asked Milo.
“Certainly not!” he shouted, glaring from his most upset face. “They’re all the wrong way. Just because you have a choice, it doesn’t mean that any of them has to be right.”

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A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design by Lee Copeland definitely worth reading

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I just read Joseph Juran’s autobiography and found it very interesting. I wrote a review of it: A review of Dr Joseph Juran’s autobiography: “Architect of Quality” – TestAndAnalysis

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