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About Joris Meerts

The site is maintained by Joris Meerts, test consultant for Capgemini in the Netherlands. I am a member of the Dutch Exploratory Workshop on Testing, TestNet and the Rebel Alliance

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Presentations

TestNet May 2011 From Ritual to Rational Behaviour in Software Testing (Van ritueel naar rationeel handelen in testen) [Click here to view the PDF (Dutch)]

Books that are currently in my private collection

201 Principles of Software Development
Alan M. Davis
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Against Method
Paul Feyerabend
Are Your Lights On?
Donald C. Gause, Gerald M. Weinberg
The Art of Problem Solving
Russell L. Ackoff
Assessment and Control of Software Risks
Capers Jones
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Capability Maturity Model
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
Digital Computer Programming
Daniel D. McCracken
Everyday Scripting with Ruby
Brian Marick
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Martin Gardner
The Fifth Discipline
Peter M. Senge
Foundations of Software Testing
Rex Black, Isabel Evans, Dorothy Graham, Erik Veenendaal
Getting Things Done
David Allen
How We Test Software at Microsoft
Ken Johnston, Alan Page, Bj Rollinson
An Information Systems Manifesto
James Martin
Lessons Learned in Software Testing
James Bach, Cem Kaner, Bret Pettichord
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick Brooks
Out of the Crisis
W. Edwards Deming
Peopleware
Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
Poor-quality Cost
H. James Harrington
Principles of Software Engineering Management
Tom Gilb
Program Test Methods
William Hetzel
Quality Is Free
Philip B. Crosby
Rethinking Systems Analysis and Design
Gerald M. Weinberg
Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar
James Bach
The Secrets of Consulting
Gerald M. Weinberg
Software Engineering Economics
Barry W. Boehm
Software Reliability
Anthony Iannino, John D. Musa, Kazuhira Okumoto
Software Testing Techniques
Boris Beizer
Structured Analysis and System Specification
Tom DeMarco
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman
Thinking and Deciding
Jonathan Baron
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
Tools of Critical Thinking
David A. Levy
Total Quality Control
Armand V. Feigenbaum