Recommended Books

(* I've read and own every book listed here)

Joe Colantonio's Book Reviews

• Become Your Company’s Performance Testing Yoda: Two Books to Help You Harness the Force
• Performance Testing Guidance for Web Application
• Metasploit – The Penetration Tester’s Guide
• Practical Packet Analysis – Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network
Problems
• iMovie '11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

Books about Software Test Automation:

• Software Test Automation– Effective Use of Test Execution Tools by Mark Fewster and Dorothy Graham, and

• Just Enough Software Test Automation by Daniel J. Moslet and Bruce A. Posey.

• QuickTest Professional Unplugged

Books about QA:

This is the book that got me my first job in QA back in the day. Because of reading it I aced my job interview. Classic must read

• Testing Computer Software, 2nd Edition

Books about Performance Testing:

For a full review of these two book check out my post: Become Your Company’s Performance Testing Yoda: Two Books to Help You Harness the Force

• Performance Analysis for Java(TM) Websites

• Performance Testing Microsoft .NET Web Applications (Pro-Developer)

• J2EE Performance Testing

Books about Programming:

• VBScript Programmer's Reference

• Beginning C# 3.0: An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (Wrox Beginning Guides)

• Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You

• Computers Ltd.: What They Really Can't Do (Popular Science)

Books about Computer Science History:

• The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing

 

Books about Productivity:

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

 

Biographies that inspire:

Whenever I'm in a rut I usually get inspiration from reading a good biography.

• Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
• The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
• The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
• Einstein: His Life and Universe
• Tesla: Man Out of Time
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (Helix Books)
• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
• The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
• Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revo