The following sites contain great articles, useful information, and/or handy links to other sites with great articles or useful information.

(sites with interesting articles or links)

• AETG Web holds a collection of fascinating papers on topics such as combinatorial design and model based testing.
• ASQ, the American Society for Quality, now has a certification for software quality engineering, the CSQE. Their site offers information on quality in general.
• StickyMinds is a great resource for information about software testing and quality. It contains discussion forums on a variety of software, quality and testing topics, articles, links, and a book catalog. You have to be a member to access all the information, but membership is free.
• Software Testing Online Resources MTSU (STORM).
  • STORM Related Web Sites.
• Bret Pettichord's Software Testing Hotlist.
• Danil Suits ("Mr. Cluey") -- Mr. Cluey's Kludge Page.
• The QAP Library as well as his other downloadable zip files are housed at:http://home.earthlink.net/~keithz/cluey/.
• The STI Resource Guide.
• RBSC Corporation., consulting, training and contracting.
• Includes information about object-oriented testing: articles by Bob Binder, a bibliography, and a list of resources.
• Reliable Software Technologies, consulting, training, and a test tool vendor. Includes
• Johanna Rothman is a consultant, speaker, and prolific writer. She publishes a newsletter, Reflections, and also publishes articles in magazines and trade journals. Her site is a treasure trove of information. Papers on software testing and risk management.
• Software Quality Engineering.
• Online catalog of software quality books, David Gelperin.
• Software Testing Institute.
• Includes a salary survey.
• Quality Tree Consulting.
• Articles and short essays ("ruminations") on software quality and testing by Elisabeth Hendrickson.
• Harry Robinson.

Brian Marick is the author of The Craft of Software Testing. You can find his articles on his site. Brian is also the founder of the Testing Craft movement.

Data Dimensions site includes the Testers' Network, a comprehensive collection of informative articles.

Pattern Languages

• Process Pattern Language, by James Coplien, AT&T Bell Labs.

Test Planning

• Negotiating Testing Resources: A Collaborative Approach, by Cem Kaner.

Test Automation

• Totally Data-Driven Automated Testing, By Keith Zambelich Evaluates two useful architectures for automation of manual testing processes. Not very convincing.
• Improving the Maintainability of Automated Test Suites , by Cem Kaner. Descriptions of the pitfalls and challenges of automated testing.
• Success with Test Automation, by Bret Pettichord. Description of the development of a test automation that used a table-driven approach.
• Automated Testing Specialists -- Includes index to articles on automated testing

Etc.

• Testing in the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum.
• Software Testing Specialist AAS degree program -- North Seattle College.

The newsgroup comp.software.testing is main newsgroup on the subject.  This is a place where testers and testing managers go to for advice when they get squeezed particularly hard.  Many experienced and helpful software testers frequent this newsgroup.

• Read the newsgroup -- using your local site as newshost.
• FAQ (with links) -- comp.software.testing Frequently Asked Questions.
• FAQ (plain) -- comp.software.testing Frequently Asked Questions.
• Searchable archive -- This archive contains all articles posted to comp.software.testing since August 1993 when the newsgroup was started.
• Usage statistics -- for comp.software.testing from NIC.

The moderated newsgroup comp.risks contains descriptions of software failures, especially when loss of life is involved.  This is an excellent place to learn about the kinds of systemic problems that plague software.

• BugNet.  This newsletter tracks bugs in commercial PC software.  Can you find problems like these before your product ships?
• Software Testing and Quality Engineering, formerly Software QA Magazine.  A magazine for the professional tester.  The articles are written by experienced professionals.

• Getting It Right, by Jeffrey Veen -- An article surveying the various tools available.
• Doctor HTML -- This tool will quickly find stale links and other errors in your web pages.

STORM Software Testing Literature.

• Hotlists and Bookmark Collections
  • RST Reliability Hotlist -- an excellent source of information.
  • Bret Pettichord's Hotlist -- a collection of resources for the professional software tester.
  • SR/Institute's Software Quality HotList -- quite comprehensive.
  • CSST Technologies -- software testing related web page links.
  • The Software Quality Page -- links to software testing and QA information.
  • Software Testing Resources -- from Buc Rogers' Engineering Resources: an unusual collection of links (perhaps generated automatically?).
  • Robert V. Binder's Links -- RBSC Corporation's collection of Web sites.
  • Bullseye Testing Technology -- homepage with some useful links.
  • EE Toolbox list on Software Testing.
  • KAIST CS Department's SE List -- in Korea, this site has a wonderful collection of software engineering related links.
  • KAIST CS Department's CS List -- in Korea, this site has a wonderful collection of general computer science related links.
  • Applied Testing and Technology -- another list of links.
  • Ilkka Toivanen's list.
  • Khang-Wei Koo's list.
  • Nishi's Japanese Software Testing Resources.
  
  
• Miscellaneous
  • STI Resource Guide -- a list of resources for the software testing professional.
  • Australian Software Quality Research Institute -- mostly QA stuff.
  • Software Process Improvement Hotlist -- from Tantara Management Services.
  • Algorithmic and Automatic Debugging Home Page
  • The WWW Formal Technical Review Archive -- a source for materials on FTR.
  • Safety-Critical Systems.
  • Benchmark Resources.
  • WASTE -- Webpage Archives for Software Testing Examples.

• Rational, a test tool vendor that gobbled up Pure, Atria and MS test.
• Mercury Interactive -- offers automated solutions for functional, regression, and load testing along with test management tools for web, e-commerce, and other enterprise client/server applications.
• Using Expect -- Expect is a classic TCL-based Unix tool for testing and not only testing.
• Using Silk -- Silk is a tool for automating GUI testing.
• CenterLine Software, a test tool vendor.
• Parasoft, software testing tools.
• RSW Software, e-commerce test tools.
• Intrinsa, a test tool vendor (PreFix) A white paper describes their technology.
• Veritest, a test and certification lab.
• Silicon Valley Networks, publishers of Test Expert.
• Quality Systems, publisher of TracQA, a Visual Basic Test Process Management System.
• Logic Technologies, a test tool vendor (Logic Gem).
• Compuware, publisher of QA Center, a test tool.