Chapter 5 of the SWEBOK guide defines testing as follows:

• Software testing consists of the dynamic verification of the behavior of a program on a finite set of test cases, suitably selected from the usually infinite executions domain, against the specified expected behavior.

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Resources include:

• The Software Testing On Line Resources (STORM)at http://www.mtsu.edu/~storm/
• Brett Pettichord's Software Testing Hotlist at http://www.io.com/~wazmo/qa/
• Testing: A Roadmap. Mary Jean Harrold. In Future of Software Engineering, 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering, June 2000. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/aristotle/Publications/Papers/icse00-testing-roadmap.pdf
• IFIP TestCom conference on software testing
• The ISSTA conferences
• http://www.testingeducation.org/
• http://www.soft.com/Institute/HotList/

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Brian Marick has an excellent tutorial on glass box testing, called Testing for Programmers. Available on line from http://www.testing.com/writings/half-day-programmer.pdf

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