A tour guide to the IEEE Standards

If you need to understand how to use IEEE Standards on your software
development project, you'll find that this book is an essential tour
guide. It provides an overview of all the standards, how they
interrelate and their strengths and weaknesses. Indeed some of the
criticisms are so sharp that I was surprised the book was endorsed by
the IEEE. For example, it points out that the IEEE definition for a
"unit" (as in unit testing) is circular and vacuous. A unit is
whatever you call a unit! Previously, I'd just assumed that a useful definition must have been in one standard or another.

As a testing consultant, I have been most interested in it's overview
of the testing standards and the various relations between them and
the other standards. I have the whole IEEE standards collection. It's
massive! This is my guidebook that lets me know what else I need to
read. This book provides several maps, diagrams and charts that help
sort things out.

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• A tour guide to the IEEE Standards
• Valuable help when it comes time to implement the standards