Referenced Books in ISTQB® Syllabi - ISTQB® International Software Testing Qualifications Board

Foundation Level 2018

Andreas Spillner (2014), Software Testing Foundations, 4th Edition, Rocky Nook
Beizer Boris (1990), Software Testing Techniques (2nd edition), Van Nostrand Reinhold
Black, R. (2017), Agile Testing Foundations, BCS Learning & Development Ltd: Swindon UK
Graham, D. and Fewster, M. (2012), Experiences of Test Automation, Pearson Education: Boston MA
Jorgensen, P. (2014), Software Testing, A Craftsman’s Approach (4e), CRC Press: Boca Raton FL
Kaner, C., Padmanabhan, S. and Hoffman, D. (2013), The Domain Testing Workbook, Context-Driven Press
Kramer, A., Legeard, B. (2016), Model-Based Testing Essentials: Guide to the ISTQB Certified Model-Based Tester: Foundation Level, Wiley
Shull, F., Rus, I., Basili, V. July 2000, “How Perspective-Based Reading can Improve Requirement Inspections”, IEEE Computer
Wiegers, K. (2002), Peer Reviews in Software, Pearson Education: Boston MA

Foundation Level 2011:

Beizer Boris (1990), Software Testing Techniques (2nd edition), Van Nostrand Reinhold
Rex Black (2001), Managing the Testing Process (2nd edition), John Wiley & Sons
Hans Buwalda et al. (2001), Integrated Test Design and Automation, Addison Wesley
Lee Copeland (2004), A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design, Artech House
Rick David Craig and Stefan P. Jaskiel (2002), Systematic Software Testing, Artech House
Mark Fewster and Graham Dorothy (1999), Software Test Automation, Addison Wesley
Tom Gilb and Dorothy Graham (1993), Software Inspection, Addison Wesley
Bill Hetzel (1988), Complete Guide to Software Testing, QED
Cem Kaner, James Bach and Bret Pettticord (2002), Lessons Learned in Software Testing, John Wiley & Sons
Glenford J. Myers (1979), The Art of Software Testing, John Wiley & Sons
Erik van Veenendaal (2004), The Testing Practitioner, UTN Publishers

Foundation Level - Agile Tester:

Leo van der Aalst and Cecile Davis (2013), TMap NEXT® in Scrum ICT-Books.com
Gojko Adzic (2009), Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing, Neuri Limited
David Anderson (2010), Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, Blue Hole Press
Kent Beck (2002), Test-driven Development: By Example, Addison-Wesley Professional
Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres (2004), Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2e, Addison-Wesley Professional
Rex Black (2007), Pragmatic Software Testing, John Wiley and Sons
Rex Black (2009), Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing, 3e, Wiley
David Chelimsky et al (2010), The RSpec Book: Behavior Driven Development with Rspec, Cucumber, and Friends, Pragmatic Bookshelf
Mike Cohn (2004), User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development, Addison-Wesley Professional
Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory (2008), Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, Addison-Wesley Professional
Adam Goucher and Tim Reilly, editors (2009), Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software, O'Reilly Media
Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, and Chet Hendrickson (2000), Extreme Programming Installed, Addison-Wesley Professional
Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour (2011), The Economics of Software Quality, AddisonWesley Professional
Tilo Linz (2014), Testing in Scrum: A Guide for Software Quality Assurance in the Agile World, Rocky Nook
Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (2001), Agile Software Development with Scrum, Prentice Hall
Erik van Veenendaal (2012), The PRISMA approach, Uitgeverij Tutein Nolthenius
Karl Wiegers and Joy Beatty (2013), Software Requirements, 3e, Microsoft Press

Foundation Level - Usability Testing:

Lorin W. Anderson, David R. Krathwohl (eds.) (2001) A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Allyn & Bacon
Carol M. Barnum (2011), Usability Testing Essentials, Elsevier
John Brooke, SUS – A ‘Quick and Dirty’ Usability Scale, in Patrick W. Jordan, Bruce Thomas, Bernard A. Weerdmeester, Ian L. McClelland (eds.), Usability evaluation in industry, Taylor & Francis
Malcolm Gladwell (2008), Outliers – The Story of Success,, Little, Brown and Company
Rex Hartson, Pardha S. Pyla (2012), The UX Book, Morgan Kaufman
Jon A. Krosnick, Stanley Presser (2010), Question and Questionnaire Designin Peter V. Marsden, James D. Wright (eds.), Handbook of Survey Research, Second Edition, Emerald Group Publishing
Steve Krug (2010), Surgery Made Easy, New Riders
Michael C. Medlock, Dennis Wixon, Mark Terrano, Ramon L. Romero, Bill Fulton (2002), Using the RITE method to improve products: A definition and a case study, Usability Professionals Association 2002 Conference, Orlando Florida
Rolf Molich (2007), Usable Web Design, Nyt Teknisk Forlag
Rolf Molich, Kasper Hornbæk, Steve Krug, Josephine Scott, Jeff Johnson (2008), Recommendations on Recommendations, User Experience Magazine, Issue 4
Adam Goucher and Tim Reilly, editors (2009), Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software, O'Reilly Media
Jakob Nielsen, Heuristic Evaluation, in Jakob Nielsen, Robert L. Mack (eds.) (1994), Usability Inspection Methods, John Wiley & Sons
Tomer Sharon (2012), It’s Our Research: Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects, Morgan Kaufman
Chauncey Wilson (2007), Designing Useful and Usable Questionnaires: You Can’t Just “Throw a Questionnaire Together”, interactions

Advanced Level:

Beizer Boris (1995), Black-box testing, John Wiley & Sons
Rex Black (2002), Managing the Testing Process (2nd edition), John Wiley & Sons
Rex Black (2003), Critical Testing Processes, Addison-Wesley
Rex Black (2007), Pragmatic Software Testing, John Wiley and Sons
Ilene Burnstein (2003), Practical Software Testing, Springer
Hans Buwalda (2001) , Integrated Test Design and Automation, Addison-Wesley Longman
Lee Copeland (2003), A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design, Artech House
Rick David Craig and Stefan P. Jaskiel (2002), Systematic Software Testing, Artech House
Paul Gerrard and Neil Thompson (2002), Risk-based e-business testing, Artech House
Gilb Tom and Graham Dorothy (1993), Software inspection, Addison-Wesley
Dorothy Graham, Erik van Veenendaal, Isabel Evans, Rex Black (2007) , Foundations of Software Testing, Thomson Learning
M. Grochmann (1994), Test case design using Classification Trees in conference proceeedings, Star
Paul C.Jorgensen (2002), Software Testing, a Craftsman's Approach, 2nd Edition, CRC press
Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord (2002), Lessons Learned in Software Testing, Wiley
Tim Koomen and Martin Pol (1999), Test Process Improvement, Addison-Wesley
Glenford J.Myers (1979) , The Art of Software Testing, John Wiley & Sons
Martin Pol, Ruud Teunissen and Erik van Veenendaal (2002), Software Testing: A Guide to the Tmap Approach, Addison-Wesley
Steven Splaine, Stefan P.,Jaskiel (2001), The Web-Testing Handbook, STQE Publishing
D.H. Stamatis (1995), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, ASQC Quality Press
Erik van Veenendaal (2002), The Testing Practitioner, UTN Publishing
James Whittaker (2003), How to Break Software, Addison-Wesley
James Whittaker and Herbert Thompson (2004), How to Break Software Security, Pearson / Addison-Wesley

Expert Level - Improving the Test Process:

John Hayes, John Adams and Barrie Hopson (1976), Transition: Understanding & managing personal change
L. W. Anderson and D. R. Krathwohl (eds) (2001), A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Allyn & Bacon
Eastwood Atwater (1981), I Hear You, Prentice-Hall
A. J. Bernstein (2001), Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry, McGraw-Hill Professional
Rex Black (2003), Critical Testing Processes, Addison-Wesley
Ilene Burnstein (2003), Practical Software Testing, Springer
Tony Buzan (1995), The Mindmap Book, BBC-Books
R. Cialdini (2006), Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Harper Business
Rick David Craig and Stefan P. Jaskiel (2002), Systematic Software Testing, Artech House
Lee Copeland (2003), A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design, Artech House
Isabel Evans (2004), Achieving Software Quality through Teamwork, Artech House
Stephen Few (2006), Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data, O'Reilly Media
Milo O. Frank (1990), How to get your point across in 30 seconds or less, Simon & Schuster
T. Gilb and D. Graham (1993), Software Inspection, Addison-Wesley
M. Gladwell (2001), The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Little Brown & Co
Peter Honey and A. Mumford (2002), The Learning Styles Helper's Guide, Peter Honey Publications
W. Humphrey (2000), Introduction to the Team Software Process, SEI
W. Humphrey (1997), Introduction to the Personal Software Process, SEI
Darrell Huff (1993), How to Lie with Statistics, W.W. Norton
ISTQB^® Certified Tester Expert Level, Certification Extension Process, Version 1.0, June, 17th 2008 (Available from ISTQB®-Web)
ISTQB^® Exam Guidelines for Expert Level, Version 1.0, (Available from ISTQB®-Web)
ITIL (2002), Best Practice for Service Support, Office of Government Commerce
ITIL (2002), Best Practice for Service Delivery, Office of Government Commerce
Bob McFeeley/Software Engineering Institute (SEI) (1996), IDEAL: A User's Guide for Software Process Improvement
Kaoru Ishikawa (1991), What Is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way, Prentice Hall Business Classics
Joseph M. Juran and A. Blanton Godfrey (2000), Quality Handbook, McGraw-Hill International Editions
Naomi Karten (2009), Changing How You Manage and Communicate Change: Focusing on the Human Side of Change, IT Governance Publishing
John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber (2005), Our Iceberg is Melting, Pan Macmillan
Tim Koomen and Martin Pol (1999), Test Process Improvement, Addison-Wesley
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler (2007), On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss, Scribner Book Company
A. H. Maslow (1998), Toward a Psychology of Being, Wiley
A. H. Maslow (1998), Maslow on Management, Wiley
J.D. Mayer (2004), Emotional intelligence: Key readings on the Mayer and Salovey model, Dude Publishing
Isabel Briggs Myers (1980), Understanding Personality Type, DaviesBlack Publishing (Reprint edition 1995)
Richard E. Nance and James D. Arthur (2002), Managing Software Quality: A Measurement Framework for Assessment and Prediction, Springer
A. Johnston Page and K. B. Rollinson (2008), How we test software at Microsoft, Pub. Microsoft
M. Pol. and E. van Veenendaal (1998), Structured testing of information systems: an introduction to Tmap^®, Kluwer
Mike Robson (1995), Problem Solving in Groups, Gower
Satir V., Banmen, J., Gerber J., Gomori M. (1991), The Satir model: Family therapy and beyond, Science and Behavior Books
Sogeti (2009), TPI Next – Business Driven Test Process Improvement, UTN Publishing
Trienekens and van Veenendaal (1997), Software Quality from a Business Perspective, Kluwer
E. Tufte (1990), Visual Explanations, Graphics Press
E. Tufte (1997), Envisioning Information, Graphics Press
Wagner (1996), The Transactional Manager, Spiro Press
G. Weinberg (1992), Quality Software Management, Vol. 1, Dorset House

Expert level - Test Management:

Rex Black (2003), Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect, Addison-Wesley
Rex Black (2009), Managing the Testing Process, Wiley
Barry Boehm and Richard Turner (2003), Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed, Addison-Wesley
Fred Brooks (1995), The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 2ed., Addison-Wesley
Rick David Craig and Stefan P. Jaskiel (2002), Systematic Software Testing, Artech House
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (1999), Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2ed., Dorset House
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (2003), Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, Dorset House
Esther Derby and Diany Larsen (2006), Agile Retrospectives - Making Good Teams Great, The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Peter Drucker (2006), The Practice of Management, Harper
Patricia Ensworth (2001), The Accidental Project Manager: Surviving the Transition from Techie to Manager, Wiley
Isabel Evans (2004), Achieving Software Quality through Teamwork, Artech House
Robert Galen (2004), Software Endgames: Eliminating Defects, Controlling Change, And The Countdown To On-time Delivery, Dorset House
Robert Glass (2002), Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley
Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster (1999), Software Test Automation, Addison-Wesley
Kaoru Ishikawa (1991), What Is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way, Prentice Hall Business Classics
Capers Jones (1993), Assessment and Control of Software Risks, Prentice Hall
Capers Jones (2007), Estimating Software Costs: Bringing Realism to Estimating, McGraw-Hill
Capers Jones (2008), Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality, 3ed., McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Stephen Kan (2002), Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, 2ed., Addison-Wesley
Nancy Leveson (1995), Safeware: System Safety and Computers, Addison-Wesley
Steve McConnell (1997), Software Project Survival Guide, Microsoft Press
Steve McConnell (1999), After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering, Microsoft Press
Judy McKay (2007), Managing the Test People, Rocky Nook
Isabel Briggs Myers (1980), Understanding Personality Type, Davies-Black Publishing, reprint edition, 1995
Project Management Institute (2008), A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide), 4ed., Project Management Institute
Tim Riley and Adam Goucher (2009), Beautiful Testing, O'Reilly
Johanna Rothman (2004), Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies and Nerds: The Secrets & Science Of Hiring Technical People, Dorset House
Johanna Rothman (2007), Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, Pragmatic Bookshelf
Mark Utting and Bruno Legeard (2006), Practical Model-Based Testing: A Tools Approach, Morgan Kaufmann
Edward Yourdon (2003), Death March, 2ed., Prentice Hall
James Whittaker (2002), How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing, Addison-Wesley
Karl Wiegers (1996), Creating a Software Engineering Culture, Dorset House