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I am glad to share “Manual Testing Help” eBook prepared by one of our readers. The content of this eBook is very useful to understand manual testing concepts, testing methodologies and preparing for software testing interviews.

Here are some of the topics covered in this book:

• Fundamentals of software testing
• When defects gets introduced in SDLC?
• Why does software have defects?
• What is Verification?
• What is Validation?
• Software Testing Techniques
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To celebrate this achievement I’m giving away a software testing book and one best book of the year (see details below). This giveaway will be open for a week starting from today 20th Nov 2011.

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I am in process to compile a list of good books on software testing. Soon I will share this list with you. But lately I am getting too many requests to share any book on software testing for preparing software testing interviews. So here is a quick post to share an online testing book I found “A Software Testing Primer” by Nick Jenkins.

Basically this book is an introduction to software testing. So those who are new to software testing field can start their preparation by reading this book. You will get basic idea of manual and automation testing.

Here is a summary of what this book is covering:

• What is the need of software testing?
• Different software development models
• Testing in the software development life cycle
• How to develop testing mindset?
• Regression Vs. Retesting
• White box Vs. Black box testing
• Verification and validation
• Alpha and beta testing
• Unit, Integration and System testing
• Acceptance testing
• Automation testing – Basics
• Testing the design
• Usability testing
• Performance testing
• Test planning
• Test estimation
• Test cases and elements of test cases
• Test tracking, Test planning and Test plan review
• How to manage defects and defect reports?
• Test metrics for testers
• Product release control

In all this book is a nice introduction to software testing. Author explained some key software testing concepts like Regression and Retesting difference, Alpha and beta testing etc. where many testers get confused.

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