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In addition, it contains tips and tricks to employ while testing different types of projects. This book is based on Exploratory testing , a type of testing in which no test cases are created in advance. Instead, it includes exploring the application and creating the test cases, and executing them along the way. It is particularly helpful in uncovering the bugs which cannot be found using conventional testing. This book will help you in understanding the intricacies of exploratory testing and help you in mastering this technique.

Software Testing: Principles and Practices by Srinivasan Desikan covers a wide array of software testing topics including modern testing practices like extreme testing.

This book is best suited for freshers or someone new to testing. With this, you can understand the different types of testing along with simple examples.

Jorgensen, covers model-based testing for both white-box or structural and black-box or specification-based test design techniques. Apart from this, it also covers topics like testing in an Agile environment, test-driven development, and all-pairs testing. Another way is to use eye-tracking devices. This is done especially with reading comprehension problems.

You give somebody a script to read or some text, and then you ask them some questions, and you follow their eye movements as they try and respond to the questions. Those kinds of behavioural indicators give clues as to the way that people might actually go about discriminating, selecting information, combining information ultimately to generate a response to a test item. This book had a big influence on me because it came out in , just as I finished my post-doc and got my first job as a professor.

I was a psychologist interested in testing, and I knew that I had a real uphill battle. Most were quantitative psychologists working on just the numbers, mainly measurement models. What are they really learning?

This book was one of the first to clearly articulate that we really have to think about the cognitive psychology behind the tests that we create. Are you saying that at the time you were coming into the field that was quite unusual? Certainly there were some people writing about it.

Susan Embretson , for example, is a psychologist and a testing specialist that I have admired for decades. But she was a lone voice in many ways. Now it is. This is a book written by a schoolteacher back in the s. It forces the reader to consider the unintended consequences of what we do in classrooms, including testing, and what we subject students to.

One of the things that John Holt talks about is how children can learn to game the system, because they begin to realise what it will take to do well in school. That can actually turn children off the real learning that we need them to do.

The reason I think this is an important book for testing is because I think that we should, as testing specialists, be very aware of what the unintended consequences might be of the tests that we administer to children and frankly all learners. What is the evidence that they are truly learning content or to think deeply? Or are they simply showing us what it is we want them to show us now but will soon forget as meaningless later?

Yes, he would. So this is just my opinion, but I think there is virtue in understanding why there is a segment of the population that is against testing. There is value for testing specialists, like myself, to understand their perspective because I think we have a lot to learn.

That perspective is highlighting the things that tests might do that is actually not very good. How can we improve on that? He has some great lines. And you know what I love about so many of the quotes from that book is that they also apply to adults. Shall we talk about your last book? This is The Freedom to Learn They might have a much broader understanding of the way that this book has influenced teaching.

Because even though the book is about learning, assessment is part of the way that we currently teach students. So you have teachers who obviously are teaching and hoping students learn, but are also part of a system of accountability and so we have assessments. So for example, one of the great things about this book is that it involves issues of trust. As instructors, as teachers, are we trusted by our students? Are we trusted by them to have their best interests at heart?

Are we trusted by them to help them when they make mistakes, to help them express themselves? Because trust is important if we are then going to give them feedback about where they need to improve and the methods by which they should improve.

And all of this is taking place within a social environment, with other children.