{"id":1201,"date":"2008-07-10T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T12:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2009-01-25T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T18:50:40","slug":"some-of-my-programming-book-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/07\/10\/some-of-my-programming-book-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of MY Programming Book Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I shouldn’t say “recommendations,” since I’m just recommending one book: Testing Computer Software (Second Edition) by Cem Kaner, Jack Falk, and Hung Quoc Nguyen<\/a>. This is an utterly invaluable book for anyone who ever aspires to be more than just a code monkey.<\/p>\n

Technically speaking, this book was written more for “testers” and people who manage testing teams rather than “programmers” but as long as you keep that in mind it shouldn’t be a problem.<\/p>\n

This book goes over everything that a good software testing team should do – from bug reports (including how a bug reporting system should be designed) all the way up to how to hire and manage a team of testers. There’s also a lot of stuff in there in regards to dealing with being a tester – because too often in a corporate environment, testers are really looked down upon, especially when finding bugs near the end of a deadline.<\/p>\n

All in all, just a really great book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I shouldn’t say “recommendations,” since I’m just recommending one book: Testing Computer Software (Second Edition) by Cem Kaner, Jack Falk, and Hung Quoc Nguyen. This is an utterly invaluable book for anyone who ever aspires to be more than just a code monkey. Technically speaking, this book was written more for “testers” and people… Continue reading Some of MY Programming Book Recommendations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,5],"tags":[130,107,97],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-opinion","category-technology","tag-books","tag-programming","tag-software","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-jn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1044,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/02\/11\/how-to-write-laws-the-right-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":1201,"position":0},"title":"How to write laws – the RIGHT Way","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"At least, I think it's the right way: \"If I were writing laws such that I wanted everybody to agree on how to interpret them, I would use the software development life cycle: First, have lawmakers (analogous to \"developers\") write drafts of the laws. 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