Travelling to the Share conference (share.org) in Orlando I’ve achieved something I have never done before. I started, and finished a book during the flight. And proudly it wasn’t a small book of pictures, it was a book on Software Testing.

Having previously not given it much attention, the book was laying around my office for a while. Recently, I was on the hunt for some information and rather than go straight to the mother of all search engines, I decided to be old-school and check out the books on my shelf.

Flicking through a few I stopped on one that gave me exactly what I was after. In fact, it appeared to me that within its contents were lessons that every Tester should be aware of. It hit me, “Where has this book been all my life?”.

The answer was easy; “Sitting on a shelf”. After all, the book which was written by Glenford J. Myers has been in publish for the last 30 years.

It’s called “The Art of Software Testing”.

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