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Testing Embedded Software Bart Broekman and Edwin Notenboom. 2003. Harlow, UK: Addison-Wesley. 368 pages. ISBN 0321159861. (CSQE Body of Knowledge area: Software Testing)
Testing of embedded systems is an important topic in today's world of computerized everything. One would like to believe that there are many new techniques for this type of testing. With that expectation, I was eager to read about some of them in this book. Ah, well, better luck next time.
The good news is that this is a useful book for new testers of pretty much any kind of software, not just embedded software. Much time is spent introducing concepts and general information. Experienced testers, however, won't use this text to any great degree.
A major complaint (and really the only one of import) is the reintroduction of the mythical waterfall life-cycle model. I say mythical because in 40-plus years of development, testing, and software quality, I have never seen the waterfall life cycle used as a purely sequential model. The authors renew the myth that the product "is first fully designed, then built, tested..." I have used the waterfall for commercial, military,...