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The top five most recommended books by Microsoft Test Managers for Software Test Engineers and Software Development Engineers in Test are:

• Software Testing Techniques, 2^nd Ed. Boris Beizer
  
  
• The Art of Software Testing Glenford J. Myers, 1979
  
  
• The Complete Guide to Software Testing Bill Hetzel, 1988
  
  
• How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing James A. Whittaker, 2003
  
  
• Testing Object-Orineted Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools Robert V. Binder, 1999

Other software testing books which are also highly recommended include:

• Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems Boris Beizer, 1995
• Software Testing: A Craftsman’s Approach, 2^nd Ed. Paul Jorgensen, 2002
• How to Break Software Security James A. Whittaker, 2002
• Effective Software Testing: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Testing Elfriede Dustin, 2002
• The Craft of Software Testing: Subsystem testing Including Object based and Object oriented testing Brian Marick, 1995
• Effective Methods for Software Testing, 2^nd Ed. William E. Perry, 2000
• Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software David A. Sykes, John D. McGregor, 2001
• Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Mobile and Internet-Based Systems 2^nd Ed. Hung Q. Nguyen, Robert Johnson, Michael Hackett, 2003
• Automated Software Testing: Introduction, Management, and Performance Elfriede Dustin, Jeff Rashka, John Paul, 1999
• Software Inspection Tom Gilb & Dorothy Graham, 1993
• Code Complete Steve McConnell, 1993
• Test Process Improvement: A practical step-by-step guide to structured testing Tim Koomen and Martin Pol
• The Web Testing Companion: The Insider’s Guide to Efficient and Effective Tests Lydia Ash, 2003
• Developing International Software 2^nd Ed. Dr. International, 2002
• Writing Secure Code 2^nd Ed. Michael Howard and David LeBlanc, 2003