Professional Software Testing with Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Tools for Software Developers and Test Engineers

I ordered this book to help me out on my job. So far, it has been a great help.

The previous reviews I read about this book gave great praise. And all that they said is true, the book is well written, clear, concise, and easy to understand - with rich wonderful hands on examples and source code. A wonderful entry into the Microsoft offerings of testing right along with software development. What makes this an even better buy or value added product is that if there is an issue with why things work (or don't work the way they should) the author(s) will follow up with you in an attempt to clear up any misunderstandings. Not only is it a very good read, the authors can and do add additional value to the book long after it has been paid for - should there be any questions upon anything contained in the text - something that is very unusual in this realm or domain. I can not say enough about the quality of this book and the quality of the service one gets should they have a need to contact one of the authors - in my case it was Andy Leonard - who kept helping with something that wasn't even his issue - it was one of those undocumented Microsoft "features".

Some coders may turn away from this book because it has "testing" in the title. Some test engineers who don't code may also waffle when they see source code examples written in C# included in the book. This book truly caters to both programmers (developers and technical testers: unit testing, code coverage, dynamic analysis, static analysis / fx cop, profiling, unit testing against a database, data-driven testing, build verification testing) as well as testers without a programming background (recorded web testing, load testing, manual testing, test library management). Because the line between programmer and tester becomes more difficult to define -- especially with today's software test engineers who are also hard core coders and developers who write their own test suites -- this book provides everything the programmer needs as well as everything the test engineer needs when looking to get started and utilize the incredible set of tools the team at Microsoft added into Visual Studio Team System. (This book also explores how these tools are integrated into Team Foundation Server (including check-in policies, automated testing of builds, associating bugs and tests, and more) -- so in many cases, this book not only applies to testers and developers, it will also be of interest to technical program / project managers, dev managers and test managers).

What a fantastic book!! It has helped my software developers and test engineers to better utilize all the tools available to them! The authors are articulate and knowledgeable of the subject. Highly reccomended late night reading!!