Other than that, the book is applicable
to managing the testing of systems of any size.
Book??™s Website
http://web.mac.com/petersv1/Web/Manage_Software_Testing/Welcome.html
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Acknowledgments
My first thanks go to my wife Janna, who encouraged me to finish this book. Sanjeev Richariya and
Zahid Chaudhary were kind enough to review it, make many good points, and save me from many gaffes.
Mariena Somasundaram, Samantha Glenn, and Matt Dreisin provoked many of the questions.
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About the Author
Peter Farrell-Vinay
has been a test manager and consultant to major
corporations, institutes, and governments. He has managed teams of
up to 30 in billion-dollar safety- and mission-critical projects. He has
written
Software Quality Assurance ??” What it Buys You and What It
Will Cost You
(Technical Communications Ltd., 1992).
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Introduction
We all know what testing is. We??™ve been doing it for years, in and out of school. We took tests, and
teachers gave us marks and told us we were good, bad, or indifferent. People had got the idea that tests
might be used to predict things about other people.
In 1904 a Frenchman called Alfred Binet was given the task of deciding whether or not children were
subnormal. Monsieur Binet was a member of a committee of Eminent Frenchmen, each eager to propose
his own Theory of Child Intelligence and How It can be Determined. M. Binet listened, extracted from
each Eminent Frenchman a set of tests, added many of his own invention, and tried them out on sets
of children.
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