Here you will find the readings, videos, and other materials previously available on The Center for Software Testing Education & Research website, testingeducation.org. The documents listed below are a collection of Creative Commons-licensed materials created for the BBST® courses and other valuable resources created or curated by Cem Kaner and Rebecca Fiedler. We have also included some of our latest materials available on this website.

Please note that BBST® is a registered trademark of Altom and bbst.courses is the official website. Contact us at contact@bbst.course if you have any questions or need further information.

About testingeducation.org

Cem Kaner created The Center for Software Testing Education & Research, initially known as The Software Testing Education Research Laboratory, testingeducation.org, during his years at the Florida Institute of Technology with the purpose of “[posting] our collection of resources for people who want to teach Software Testing, or who want to learn Software Testing”. On this website, all Creative-Common licensed BBST® materials have been made available to teachers and students along with other useful materials created or curated by the two authors. For a more in-depth understanding of the history and evolution of BBST® courses read Cem Kaner’s article, Evolution of the BBST Courses.

BBST® Course Materials

Foundations

• Video lectures (Latest version, 2020)
• Slides
• Required readings 
  • Michael Bolton: Testing Without a Map (PDF)
  • Douglas Hoffman: Exhausting your test options (PDF)
  • Cem Kaner: The impossibility of complete testing (PDF)
  • Cem Kaner: Software negligence and testing coverage (PDF)
  • Cem Kaner, Elisabeth Hendrickson & Jennifer Smith-Brock: Managing the proportion of testers to (other) developers (PDF)
  • Brian Marick: How to misuse code coverage (PDF)
• Recommended readings
  • Austin, Robert. (1996), Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations (BOOK)
  • James Bach: Heuristic Test Strategy Model
  • Rex Black: Factors that influence test estimation (WEBSITE )
  • Michael Bolton: Meaningful metrics (PDF)
  • David Goldberg: What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (PDF)
  • Douglas Hoffman: The darker side of software metrics (PDF)
  • Cem Kaner and Walter P. Bond: Software engineering metrics: What do they measure and how do we know? (PDF)
  • Cem Kaner: Negotiating testing resources: A collaborative approach (PDF)
  • Cem Kaner: Recruiting software testers (PDF)
  • Michael Kelly: Using heuristic test oracles (PDF)
  • Michael Kelly: Estimating testing using spreadsheets (PDF)
  • Billy V. Koen: The engineering method and the heuristic:  A personal history (“This was the beginning of a 37-year quest to find one thing that was not a heuristic.””) (PDF)
  • Koen, Billy V. Definition of the Engineering Method, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). (A later version that is more thorough but maybe less approachable is Discussion of the Method, Oxford University Press, 2003) (BOOK)”
  • Jonathan Kohl: How do I Create Value with my Testing? (PDF)
  • Brian Marick: Experience with the cost of different coverage goals for testing (PDF)
  • Petzold, Charles. (1993), Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. Microsoft Press (BOOK)
  • Popper, Karl (2002, 3rd Ed.), Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (RoutledgeClassics). (BOOK)
  • Erik Simmons: When will we be done testing? Software defect arrival modeling using the Weibull distribution (PDF)
  • Elaine J. Weyuker: On testing non-testable programs (PDF)

Bug Advocacy

• Video lectures (Latest version, 2021)
• Slides
• Rimgen cards

Test Design

• Video lectures (Latest version, 2021)
• Slides
• Required readings 
  • James Bach: Heuristic Test Strategy Model
  • Michael Bolton: Blog: Why We Do Scenario Testing
  • John M. Carroll: Five Reasons for Scenario-Based Design (from https://www.gerrystahl.net/)
  • Jacek Czerwonka: Pairwise Testing in the Real World: Practical Extensions to Test-Case Scenarios
  • Elisabeth Hendrickson, James Lyndsay, and Dale Emery: Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
  • Cem Kaner: What Is a Good Test Case?
  • Cem Kaner: An Introduction to Scenario Testing (updated April 2013)
  • Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord: Lessons Learned in Software Testing, Chapter 3: Testing Techniques
  • Michael Kelly: Taking a Tour Through Test Country: A Guide to Tours to Take On Your Next Test Project
  • Giri Vijayaraghavan and Cem Kaner: Bug Taxonomies: Use Them to Generate Better Tests
• Recommended readings
  • Adler, M., & Van Doren, C. (1972). How to Read a Book. Touchstone (BOOK)
  • James Bach and Patrick J. Schroeder: Pairwise Testing: A Best Practice That Isn’t (PDF)
  • Michael Bolton: Blog: Of Testing Tours and Dashboards
  • Michael Bolton: The Factors of Function Testing (PDF)
  • Michael Bolton: Blog: Pairwise Testing (PDF)
  • Hans Buwalda: Soap Opera Testing (PDF)
  • Fiona Charles: Modeling Scenarios using Data (PDF)
  • D. M. Cohen, S. R. Dalal, M. L. Fredman, and G. C. Patton: The AETG System: An Approach to Testing Based on Combinatorial Design (BOOK)
  • Ross Collard: Test Design: Developing test cases from use cases(PDF)
  • Copeland, L. (2004). A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design. Artech House (BOOK)
  • Gause, D.C., & Weinberg, G.M. (1989). Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design. Dorset House (BOOK)
  • Dick Hamlet and Ross Taylor: Partition Testing Does Not Inspire Confidence (PDF)
  • Darren McMillan: Tales from the Trenches: Lean Test Cases (PDF)
  • Darren McMillan: Mind Mapping 101 (PDF)
  • NSW Government: Hazardous Industry Planning Advisory Paper No 8: HAZOP Guidelines (PDF)
  • Michael Hunter: You Are Not Done Yet Checklist (PDF)
  • Cem Kaner, Jack Falk, Hung Quoc Nguyen: Testing Computer Software, Second Edition, APPENDIX: COMMON SOFTWARE ERRORS (PDF)
  • Cem Kaner: Teaching the Software Testing Course: A Tutorial (PDF)
  • Cem Kaner and Bob Johnson: Styles of Exploration (PDF)
  • Michael Kelly: Blog: Touring Heuristic (PDF)
  • Myers, G. J. (1979). The Art of Software Testing. Wiley (BOOK)
  • Whittaker, J.A. (2002) How to Break Software, Boston: Addison Wesley (BOOK)

Instructor Course

• Video lectures (Original version, 2011)

Metrics

• Slide deck for CAST 2012 talk titled Software Metrics: Threats to Validity 
• CAST 2012 talk titled Software Metrics: Threats to Validity 
• The Q&A; session from CAST 2012 

Engineering Ethics

• A Cautionary Note on Checking Software Engineering Papers for Plagiarism

Exploratory testing

• Lecture 1
• Lectures slides

Additional Topics and Resources

• Quality Cost Analysis (PDF)
• Regression Testing (PDF)
• GUI Regression Automation (requirements analysis and maintainability) (PDF)
• High Volume Test Automation (PDF)
• Requirements (Interest) Analysis (PDF)
• Test documentation (PDF)
• Test scripts (PDF)
• Scripted Testing and Inattentional Blindness (PDF)
• Quality Cost Analysis (VIDEO)
• Regression #1 (VIDEO)
• Regression #2 (VIDEO)
• Regression #3 (VIDEO)
• GUI Regression Automation #1 (VIDEO)
• GUI Regression Automation #2 (VIDEO)
• GUI Regression Automation #3 (VIDEO)
• Requirements (Interest) Analysis (VIDEO)
• Test Documentation #1 (VIDEO)
• Test Documentation #2 (VIDEO)
• Scripted Testing #1 (VIDEO)
• Scripted Testing #2 (VIDEO)
• Scripted Testing and Inattentional Blindness (VIDEO)