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Software Testing and Quality Assurance

7. “Automated testing uses testing tools to perform the test.” Does this mean that there is no human
intervention needed for automated testing?
8. Is quality assurance and quality control mutually exclusive quality initiatives? Which activity is
closer to testing?
9. "Software testing is a risk-based exercise." Explain.
2.9 Further Readings

Ron Patton, Software Testing-Second Edition, SAMS Publishing, USA
Hutcheson, Marnie L, Software Testing Fundamentals, Wiley Publishing, USA
Kassem A. Saleh, Software Engineering, J.Ross Publishing, 2009, US

http://qastation.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/static-testing-vs-dynamic-testing/
http://www.adager.com/vesoft/automatedtesting.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2453259/Testing-Techniques-and-Strategies
http://www.testinggeek.com/index.php/testing-articles/137-equivalence-partitioning-
introduction
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs3302_98_summer/7-02-unittest/sld009.htm
http://www.slideshare.net/nworah/types-of-software-testing
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/des_s99/sw_testing/
http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/what-is-boundary-value-analysis-and-
equivalence-partitioning/

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