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Pretty Good, but could have been better
Good Book for Testers
.Net backlash?
Annoying
Solid,easy to grasp, straight to the point - VB book

Visual Basic for Testers
Mary Romero Sweeney
Manufacturer: Apress
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1893115534

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The goal of Visual Basic for Testers is to teach you how to use Visual Basic to increase your level of sophistication as a tester. You'll learn how to use VB to write an automated testing project and what to look for in a well-written VB program. Author Mary Sweeney will help you gain the experience necessary both to use VB to support an automated text project and to text a commercial application written in VB.

Visual Basic for Testers is easy to read and understand, and is not intended to be a high-level technical reference. Rather, it is a practical guide with many examples provided by real testers with real-world experience in writing VB test code. It is useful for those considering a career in testing and wondering just what the difference is between writing code for testing and writing code for software development.

Since testers often want to move to development tracks, Sweeney also presents information on programming and the issues involved in maintenance and debugging.

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The goal of Visual Basic for Testers is to teach the reader how to use Visual Basic to increase their level of sophistication as a tester. They will learn for example how to use VB to write an automated testing project. Along the way, Sweeney shows them what to look for in a well-written VB program. This will help them gain the experience necessary to both use Visual Basic to support an automated test project as well as to test a commercial application written in Visual Basic. Since testers often want to move to development tracks, the fact that readers will also learn a lot about good programming and the issues involved in maintenance and debugging is a big plus.

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Pretty Good, but could have been better.......2005-10-27

This book neither teaches Software Testing nor programming. And is intented for VB related Programmers/testers who know some VB and Testing. There was a possibility of being little more specific, I mean the early chapters of the book talk about VB projects, creating them and the very basic information about IDE rather than testing. There could have been a possibility of taking up a real project implementation, lets say testing/automating the entire MS Office testing using VB.
But again, this has been a very serious effort for automation and deserves a lot of appreciation.

Abhinav Vaid

Good Book for Testers.......2004-02-12

This book is exactly what the title says: an introduction to Visual Basic for testers. It succeeds wonderfully at that.
It is not a book about testing. If you already know VB and want to know how to test your application, there are a few chapters near the end that you will find useful but this book is not really intended for you.

.Net backlash?.......2004-02-11

I've had several college-level courses now in Testing and this is the only book we used that actually had anything to do with testing and programming. This is an absolute essential text for a college curriculum in testing. I checked out several curricula and found that most of them use it. I wonder about those that don't. In our course we also explored the use of .Net for testing and in my opinion it's a lot easier, more clear and way less expensive to use the techniques in this book. If you're trying to learn it on your own, this is still a good book. It's got exercises and examples.

My wife's been a tester for many years but didn't do programming and she loved it. She said it gave her a lot of ideas. Maybe if you've already been an automated tester and/or developer for many years, this book isn't going to help, since it has a lot of basics. But if you are trying to learn, where else would you go? I liked the way you could just sit down and read it from cover to cover. It's unpretentious and doesn't talk down to us. It does expect you already know testing terminology and basics, but before you read this, you should.

Annoying.......2003-10-07

This book is really a primer on Visual Basic for someone who has never programmed before. Testing is just an afterthought.
If you're a developer trying to improve processes through testing this book is not for you.

If you're a software tester who knows absolutely nothing about programming, nice to meet you, I didn't know you existed, take a look at this book.

Solid,easy to grasp, straight to the point - VB book.......2003-08-13

This book is long overdue for too long QA resources have been limited by others and themsleves to not look under the bonnet, so to speak or have payed for inflexible third party tools to do a simple job. I have developed entire smart'newbie' QA technical teams that just couldn't believe how easy it was to use code to test an application. It also adds to there skill set, gets them to really think 'how' best to test the application from a code point of view and even improves their test cases.

Mary Sweeney's book "Visual Basic for Testers" is the starting point for any Manager who wants to do the same and give his/her team that extra weapon for finding issues.

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