Practical tutorial on how to actually do testing by presenting numerous "attacks" you can perform to test your software for bugs. Practical approach has little or no theory, but shows real ways effectively test software—accessible to beginners and seasoned testers. The author is well known and respected as an industry consultant and speaker. Uses market leading, and immediately identifiable, software applications as examples to show bugs and techniques. How to Break Software is a departure from conventional testing in which testers prepare a written test plan and then use it as a script when testing the software. The testing techniques in this book are as flexible as conventional testing is rigid. And flexibility is needed in software projects in which requirements can change, bugs can become features and schedule pressures often force plans to be reassessed. Software testing is not such an exact science that one can...