Books On My Shelf

Over the years I have collected quite a few books, not always on testing as I used to be able to get enough online and through discussions with people to keep up. Occasionally I still bought the book that to me, was useful, or was a necessary part of the books I wanted to always take with me from Job to Job. So here is the list of what I have (your mileage may vary):

Testing Books (some of these come into the office with me, especially Lessons Learned In Software Testing, which I have pulled out from time to time to get a point across to Dev Managers), this is not in any special order:

• Quality Software Management - Volume 1: Systems Thinking, Weinberg
• The Complete Guide To Software Testing, Hetzel
• Effective Software Testing, Dustin
• How To Break Software, Whittaker
• Lessons Learned In Software Testing, Kaner & Bach & Petticord
• Managing The Testing Process, Black
• Customer Orientated Software Quality Assurance, Ginac
• Software Testing In The Real World, Kit
• Change-Based Test Management, Sistowicz & Arell
• How We Test Software At Microsoft, Page, Johnston, Rollison
• Writing Solid Code, Maguire
• Debugging The Development Process, Maguire
• How To Break Software Security, Whittaker, Thompson
• Implementing Automated Software Testing, Dustin, Garrett, Gauf

Technology Books (I use Perl ALOT as you can see), since I am mostly self taught these are all the things I have needed for my job in past...most of this is O'Reilly, a geeks best friend.

• Learning Perl On Win32 Systems, Programming Perl, Advanced Perl Programming, Perl Best Practices, Perl CD Bookshelf, Mastering Regular Expressions, Perl Cookbook
• Debugging Perl
• Learning Bash Shell
• Sed & Awk
• JavaScript
• CGI Programming
• SQL In A Nutshell
  
• Unix Shell Programming
• Unix In A Nutshell
• Python Visual Quickstart Guide
• Python Programming For Beginners
• Python Essential Reference
• Unit Test Frameworks
• Teach Yourself Java
• Java Development With Ant
• Open Source Programming with CVS
• Unit Test Framework, O'Reilly
• Pragmatic Unit Testing, Hunt, Thomas
  
• Practical Performance Analyst, Gunther
• Aptana RadRails, Ramirez
• Test Driven .NET Development with Fitnesse, Adzic
• Fit For Developing Software, Mugridge, Cunningham
• Head First C#
• Windows PowerShell In Action

I've been asked if I really had to choose my top 3 I'd say:

1. Hetzels book The Complete Guide (as it was my first)
2. Maguire's Debugging The Development Process
3. Lessons Learned (which I actually bring into my office a lot)

Others I received about the same time I originally made this post are:

Web testing handbook - Splaine and Jaskiel
Software testing - Ron Patton
Systematic software testing - Craig and Jaskiel
Software testing techniques - Boris Beizer
Black box testing - Boris Beizer
Test process improvement - Koomen & Pohl
The testing practitioner - Erik van Veenandaal
The Art of Software Testing – Glenford Myers (yes, I know it is old, but still good)