Basic Software Testing Resource Materials

For your convenience, these software testing materials are listed alphabetically and can be individually downloaded. 

Articles and Publications:

ISTQB Glossary
Bug Reporting Process
Critical Testing Processes
Critical Testing Processes:  Introduction (Russian Translation)

translation courtesy of Andrey Punin

Errata Sheets
For an errata sheet for the book, Advanced Software Testing-Vol.1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst, click on the following link and then choose “Look inside / Add-ons”
http://www.rockynook.com/book/1/55/advanced-software-testing%26mdash%3Bvol.-1.html
For an errata sheet for the book, Advanced Software Testing-Vol.3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst, click on the following link and then choose “Look inside / Add-ons”
http://www.rockynook.com/book/1/97/advanced-software-testing%26mdash%3Bvol.-3.html

Freightliner Test Level Matrix
courtesy of Bill Lind
Introduction to Critical Testing Processes
Introduction to Managing the Testing Process, 2nd ed.
Investing in Testing (audio file)
ISTQB Certification: Why you need it and how to get it
Measuring Defect Potentials and Defect Removal Efficiency
Capers Jones
Mission Made Possible
Quality Risk Analysis
Quality Software
Release Management Processes
Risk Perception
by Erik Simmons, Intel Corporation
Seven Steps to Reducing Software Security Risks
Test Execution Processes
Testing ROI: What IT Managers Should Know
The Right Stuff: Four Small Steps for Testers, one Giant leap for Risk Mitigation
by Rex Black and Barton Layne
Two Weeks to Better Testing in 2008

MTP Exercise Solutions

by Rex Black and Judy McKay (supplement to Managing the Testing Process 3ed)

Slides:

Charting the Progress of System Development Using Defect Data
Create Your Own Luck
Fine Art of Writing a Good Bug Report
Five Trends Affecting Testing
Integrated Test Automation of IVR-Telephony Apps and Client-Server Call Center Apps
Investing in Software Testing
Managing Complex Test Environments
Quality and the Internet Appliance
Requirements to Release Criteria
Risk Based Testing:  What It Is and How You Can Benefit

Shoestring Manual Testing
The ISTQB Advanced Syllabus: Guiding the Way to Better Software Testing

Templates and Examples:

Webinar Slides (no audio):

Webinar 4/30/2009: Agile Testing Challenges
Webinar 5/27/2009: Testing on the Outsourced Project
Webinar 6/9/2009: Ten Worst Things for Testing
Webinar 7/1/2009: Six Surprising Findings from Test Team Assessments
Webinar 8/6/2009: The ISTQB Advanced Syllabus
Webinar 9/3/2009: Five Testing Best Practices
Webinar 10/8/2009:  Future of Test Management
Webinar 11/23/2009:  Test Reporting for Impact
Webinar 12/9/2009: Achieving Realistic, Truthful, Actionable Schedules
Webinar:  1/20/2010:  Five Hard-Won Lessons in Performance, Load and Reliability Testing
Webinar:  2/23/2010:  Risk Based Testing:  What it is and How You Can Benefit
Webinar:  3/11/2010:  Code Coverage Metrics and How to Use Them
Webinar:  4/6/2010:  Advanced Software Testing: Decision Tables
Webinar:  5/20/2010:  Satisfying Test Stakeholders
Webinar:  6/1/2010:  Advanced Software Testing:  Applying state diagrams to business logic
Webinar:  7/1/2010:  Test Organization Options
Webinar:   8/3/2010:  Advanced Software Testing:  Use cases
Webinar:  9/7/2010:  Test Return on Investment
Webinar:   10/5/2010:  Advanced Software Testing:  Pairwise Testing
Webinar:  11/10/2010: Hiring Great Testers
Webinar:  12/2/2010:  Advanced Software Testing:  Testing Complex Logic with Domain Analysis
Webinar:  1/6/2011:   Six Lessons in Software Quality 
Webinar:  2/9/2011:  Ten Lessons in Test Outsourcing
Webinar: 3/16/2011 & 3/17/2011:  ISTQB:  Certification the Standard for Tester Professionalism
Webinar: 4/12/2011:  Advanced Software Testing: Static Code Analysis
Webinar: 5/26/2011:  Metrics for Testing
Webinar: 6/28/2011:  ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst 
Webinar:  7/6/2011-7/7/2011:  Psychopolitics of Test Management
Webinar:  8/9/2011:  Advanced Software Testing:  Code Coverage  
Webinar:  9/8/2011:  Test Estimation:  Seeing the Future of Your Test Effort
Webinar: 10/20/2011:  Advanced Software Testing:  Integration Testing 
Webinar: 11/22/2011:  Listen  to Your Defects
Webinar: 12/13/2011:  Five Trends Five Years Later 
Webinar: 1/5/2012:  The Sherpas of Testing Success - Studies of Successful Independent Test Groups 
Webinar: 2/9/2012:  Managing Quality within Budget and Scheduling Constraints: Successful and Unsuccessful Techniques