mr toad's wild ride
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09:38 AM, April 5, 2006
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please don't take this as some kind of racist slur but the german amazon site is waaaaaay faster for orders than the american one. i ordered stuff off both sites around the same time and the german one got here yesterday. the american order shipped before the german one but no sign of that yet. yay for german efficiency! anyway so i now have software testing foundations by spillner, linz and schaefer in my hot little hands. looks good. foreword by rex black, one of the authors used to be CEO of ISTQB, which means that it is written for the test, partly why i got it, and also from the introduction it should be a good foundation for newbie testers. the only thing negative i have noticed thus far is a few english grammar errors. i am a tester. i used to be an english as a second language teacher. i am going to pick up on that real quick. but i will survive. i will review it once i have got through it.{ Last Page } { Page 9 of 12 } { Next Page }Untitled Comment
05:40 PM, April 5, 2006 .. Posted by philk10Always on the look out for more books so make sure you do post a review and whether you recommend it or not
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05:41 PM, April 5, 2006 .. Posted by metalbabyconsider it done...
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03:18 AM, April 6, 2006 .. Posted by jimhazenChris,
I did a search on the American Amazon site for the book by Spilner and found it is not published yet here in the U.S. Seems Rex Black and crew are doing the "American" version. Figures.
After you get done reading it you should do a book report. I know, not what you wanted to hear. But it would be good for those of us who want to get a different angle on the exam. I like Rex, but know he can be a bit biased in his writings. If this is truely to be an international cert. standard then ISTQB needs to use only one book (and translate it into other languages). Maybe that is what Rex is doing, translating it to American English (but with him being from Texas the book will definitely have a twang to it, as long as he doesn't use the term "nuclar" testing). It is different than the Queen's English (we say "realize" versus "realise").
Jim
ISTQB Book report
09:38 AM, April 6, 2006 .. Posted by metalbabyhey jim,
That's why i had to order it from amazon.de with the help of babelfish... i will do the book report, but only if i get some sort of gold or silver star in my diary. :P And when Rex's book comes out you will have to do a review on that so we can do a comparison.
chris
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