As the title indicates, the emphasis is on principles and practices. The material in this book has already been Beta tested by several universities in India such as Anna University in Chennai and International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B). IIIT-B is also adopting the book for its Center of Excellence in Soft ware Engineering and for its M.Tech. students. Some concepts in the book have already been presented to practitioners through international conferences and guest lectures by the authors of this book. We have added chapters that focus on managing geographically distributed teams. This is especially relevant for multinational companies, where distributed teams in different continents work together in unison-developing, testing and delivering products to a global customer base. We have included emerging trends in testing like extreme testing, ad hoc testing and so on. The contents of this book can be used by practitioners to understand the state-of-practice in the testing industry. The chapters on Test Planning, Test Management and Automation have been added to help the practitioners adopt these concepts at work. We have provided sufficient academic rigor to satisfy the contents of the syllabi of the various universities.
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