Referenced Books in ISTQB® Syllabi

Foundation Level:

• 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

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