Books

A practical handbook packed with real-world advice to help you write better code, adopt effective developer habits, and build great software.

Are you a VP or Head of Engineering considering the best quality engineering model for your company? Are you a director of Engineering tasked with rolling out a Quality Coach Model? Are you a test lead or software tester shifting to a quality coach role? The Quality Coach Handbook is your practical guide to shifting to a model where the whole team owns quality and in particular software engineers design, build, test and support software. Print version: Paperback and hardcover are available on Amazon. Use your country's Amazon site (e.g., Amazon.com.au for Australia) to minimise shipping time and cost.

Most enterprises can deliver fast, but few can adapt at scale.The Cybernetic Enterprise introduces a unifying operating model that embeds AI, feedback loops, and platform thinking into the DNA of your organization. Learn how to build a system that senses change, learns continuously, and transforms disruption into strategic advantage.

Master performance testing and JMeter with this book written by three members of Apache JMeter's team who are also experts in the performance field.You will deeply understand how to get the most out of it, be more productive and integrate it into your Agile/DevOps processes.

Holistic testing is a comprehensive term to encompass testing throughout the development cycle from the start of an idea, through to customer interaction with a delivered feature. All members of a delivery team think about testing and quality from the beginning and throughout the cycle.  This book is about the Holistic Testing Model and how to apply it to develop a quality and testing strategy for the whole team. If you care about quality – no matter what your specialty or role in your organization is – we think you’ll find it helpful. UI/UX designers, product owners, programmers, testers, database experts, business analysts, site reliability and platform engineers, and more – this model will guide you as you collaborate to continually improve your process and product. 

Generative AI can write code fast, but fast does not always mean safe. This practical guide shows software teams how to verify, test, secure and govern AI-assisted code across the full development lifecycle. Packed with real-world examples and practical workflows, it offers a clear path to adopting AI without lowering the bar for software quality.

This book is written for anyone who wants to understand what testing and testing leadership are all about. A better understanding will help to lead and improve your testing - whether testing is outsourced or in-house. CEO, CIO, or CTO - this is the testing book for you, too! It's also for anyone who works with software: product owners, project managers, system analysts, developers, testers, test managers, and many others, including students. We have created ACT 2 LEAD mnemonic to help you in leading testing.  Read the book to learn what it means!

This book is designed for testing engineers who are new to the field of performance testing. It emphasizes the fundamental concepts and methodologies associated with performance testing.

This book is for cross-functional teams working in an iterative delivery environment, planning with user stories and testing frequently changing software under tough time pressure. This book will help you test your software better, easier and faster. Many of these ideas also help teams engage their business stakeholders better in defining key expectations and improve the quality of their software products.

A builder's guide to AI-powered performance testing, from a multi-agent platform that turns 25 minutes of manual correlation into 75 seconds, written by the engineer who built it.

Effective Code Review Tips and Tricks

Make desktop automation practical, reliable, and cross-platform. Discover how to automate real-world applications, record interactions, and build maintainable GUI tests with Python.

Die meisten Unternehmen können schnell liefern, aber nur wenige können sich in großem Maßstab anpassen.The Cybernetic Enterprise stellt ein einheitliches Betriebsmodell vor, das KI, Rückkopplungsschleifen und Plattform-Denken in die DNA Ihrer Organisation einbettet. Erfahren Sie, wie Sie ein System aufbauen, das Veränderungen wahrnimmt, kontinuierlich lernt und Disruption in strategische Vorteile verwandelt.

What is a good software architecture? Why should we bother structuring the code and spending time testing it? If you like spending hours debugging your programs or staying late at the office to recover from a buggy deploy in production this book is definitely NOT for you!

Your boss is breathing down your neck, users are yelling and everyone thinks fixing the bug should be simple and quick. Level Up Your Debugging gives you the processes, tips, and tools you need to make debugging quick and painless.