By by Marc McDonald, Robert Musson, Ross Smith

The book and it’s site (www.defectprevention.org) strive to harness the collective wisdom of the community and find new ways to prevent defects, moving the detection of defects closer to their introduction. Written by experts with over a century of software development experience among them, this book distills hard-won lessons into a set of actionable lessons that will help deliver better-quality software.

By Lee Copeland

If you want a good overview of an armful of effective test techniques, Lee Copeland's Practitioner's Guide is a great place to start. In addition to covering equivalence classes, combinatoric testing and state transition (model-based) testing, Lee gives an objective view of exploratory testing that explains the benefits and drawbacks. Reviewed by Alan Page

By Robert Binder

Despite the title, this book isn't really just for testing OO software - Binder's patterns of software test are as important for testers to know as design patterns are for developers. Binder also covers a lot of the theory behind model-based testing. The drawback with this book is the size - over 1200 pages. Reviewed by Alan Page

By Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas with Matt Hargett

This book takes the reader through the reasons why unit testing is a good idea, shows how to get started writing unit tests in C# with NUnit, and then goes deeper into the subject with chapters on aspects of unit testing like boundary conditions, mock objects, design issues, and gotchas.  This is a great first book on unit testing.  There is also a version available aimed at Java/JUnit. Reviewed by Ron Pihlgren