My QA Bookshelf

Here are some of the books currently in my bookcase:

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
• A Standard for Testing Application Software - William E. Perry
• Advanced Visual Basic 6: Power Techniques for Everyday Programs - Matthew J. Curland
• An Introduction to General Systems Thinking - Gerald M. Weinberg
• The Art of Software Testing - Glenford J. Myers
• Automated Software Testing: Introduction, Management, and Performance- Elfriede Dustin, et al
• Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems - Boris Beizer
• The Bug - Ellen Ullman
• Business at the Speed of Thought : Using a Digital Nervous System" - Bill Gates
• C: A Reference Manual - Samuel P. Harbison, Guy L. Steele
• Client Server Software Testing on the Desktop and the Web - Daniel J. Mosely
• Code Complete - Steve McConnell
• Compensating New Sales Roles: How to Design Rewards That Work in Today's Selling Environment - Jerome A. Colletti,et al
• "Complete Guide to Sales Force Compensation: How to Plan Salaries, Commissions, Bonuses, Quotas...Everything Needed to Achieve Top Sales Results - James F. Carey 
• The Complete Guide to Software Testing" - Bill Hetzel
• Computer Essays for Management - Jerome Kanter
• Computer Ethics - Deborah G. Johnson
• Cryptography Decrypted" - H. X. Mel, et al 
• Customer Intimacy: Pick Your Partners, Shape Your Culture, Win Together" - Fred Wiersema
• Dan Appleman's Visual Basic 5.0 programmer's guide to the Win32 API" - Daniel Appleman 
• De Bono's Thinking Course" - Edward De Bono
• Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT - Nadine Kano
• Distributed Databases, Cooperative Processing, and Networking - Shaku Atre
• Dynamics of Software Development" - Jim McCarthy
• Effective Software Testing: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Testing - Elfriede Dustin
• Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers - Steve Souders
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change - Kent Beck
• Find the Bug : A Book of Incorrect Programs - Adam Barr
• Getting it right the second time: How American ingenuity transformed forty-nine marketing failures into some of our most successful products - Michael Gershman
• Growth Partnering: How to Build Your Company's Profits by Building Customer Profits - Mack Hanan
• High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers - Steve Souders
• High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars - Charles Ferguson 
• How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing - James A. Whittaker
• How to Break Software Security - James A. Whittaker, Herbert H. Thompson 
• How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services - Mike Andrews, James A. Whittaker
• How We Test Software at Microsoft - Alan Page, Ken Johnston, Bj Rollison
• HTML Goodies - Joe Burns
• Html Quick Reference" - Robert Mullen
• "Implementing Automated Software Testing: How to Save Time and Lower Costs While Raising Quality" - Elfriede Dustin, Thom Garrett, Bernie Gauf
• "Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage" - Richard N. Foster
• "International Programming for Microsoft Windows" - David A. Schmitt
• "Interviewing: More Than a Gut Feeling" - Rishcard S. Deems 
• "It's About Time: A Fable About the Next Dimension of Quality" - John Guaspari
• "Leading Product Development : The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping the Enterprise" - Steven C. Wheelwright
• "Learn Visual Basic 6.0 Now" - Michael Halvorson 
• "Lessons Learned in Software Testing" - Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord
• "The Logic of Failure" - Dietrich Dorner
• "Lotus Notes & Domino Essential Reference" - Tim Bankes, Dave Hatter 
• "Made to Stick : Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die" - Chip Heath, Dan Heath
• "Managing High-Technology Programs and Projects" - Russell D. Archibald
• "Mastering Active Directory" - Robert King 
• "Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations" - Robert D. Austin 
• "Merriam-Webster's Guide to International Business Communications/How to Communicate Effectively Around the World by Mail,Fax, and Phone" - Toby D. Atkinson
• "Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit: A complete toolkit for Microsoft's undocumented log analysis tool" - Gabriele Giuseppini
• "MICROSOFT SECRETS : How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People" - Michael A. Cusumano
• "Microsoft Windows 98 Resource Kit" - Microsoft Corporation
• "Microsoft Windows NT Workstation Resource Kit" - Microsoft Corporation
• "Microsoft Windows User Experience" - Microsoft Corporation 
• "Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed." - Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister
• "Perfect Software and other illusions about testing" - Gerald M. Weinberg
• "The Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic. NET" - Craig Utley
• "Programming in the Key of C#: A Primer for Aspiring Programmers" - Charles Petzold
• "Quality Is Free" - Philip B. Crosby
• "Rapid System Development: Using Structured Techniques and Relational Technology" - Chris Gane  
• "Re-inventing the corporation: Transforming your job and your company for the new information society" - John Naisbitt
• "Rethinking Business-To-Business Marketing" - Paul Sherlock 
• "Revolutionizing Product Development : Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency, and Quality" - Steven C. Wheelwright
• "Rewards That Drive High Performance: Success Stories from Leading Organizations" - Thomas B. Wilson
• "SAA CUA Advanced Interface Design Guide" - IBM 
• "Scaling for E-Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning" - Daniel A. Menasce, Virgilio A.F. Almeida
• "Software Engineering" - Randall W. Jensen 
• "Software Test Automation" - Mark Fewster, Dorothy Graham 
• "Software Testing and Evaluation" - Richard A. Demillo, et al
• "Software Testing with Visual Test 4.0" - Thomas R. Arnold II
• "Special Edition Using Visual Basic 6" - Brian Siler 
• "Strategic data-planning methodologies" - James Martin   
• "Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing: A People-Oriented Approach" - William E. Perry and Randall W. Rice  
• "Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Internet-Based Systems" - Hung Q. Nguyen
• "Testing Client/Server Applications" - Patricia A. Goglia
• "Testing Computer Telephony Systems and Networks" - Steve Gladstone
• "Unix in a Nutshell" - Arnold Robbins 
• "The Web Testing Handbook" - Steven Splaine, et al
• "VBScript Programmer's Reference" - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, et al
• "Vedic Maths.  Vedic Formulae (Sutras) Explained in Simple Methods" - H. K. Gupta 
• "Visual Basic for Testers" - Mary Romero Sweeney 
• "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround" - Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
• "The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design: An Application Design Guide " - Microsoft Corporation
• "The World is Flat" - Thomas L. Friedman 
• "Writing Secure Code, Second Edition" - Michael Howard, David C. LeBlanc 
• "XML by Example" - Benoit Marchal 
• "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" - Robert Pirsig

(last updated September 4, 2009)