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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vance, Stephen.
Quality code : software testing principles, practices, and patterns / Stephen Vance.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-321-83298-6 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-321-83298-1 (alk. paper)
1. Computer software—Testing. 2. Software patterns. I. Title. II. Title: Software testing principles,
practices, and patterns.
QA76.76.T48V36 2013
005.1’4 —dc23 2013036018
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ISBN-13: 978-0-321-83298-6
ISBN-10: 0-321-83298-1
Text printed in the United States on recycled paper at RR Donnelley in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
First printing, November 2013
