How to Break Software

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book software testing book

"How to Break Software" is a practical software testing book that teaches systematic techniques for finding defects by thinking like an attacker of software systems.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
How to Break Software canonical	1
How to Break Software Security	1
How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5996891 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: How to Break Software
Context triple: [James Whittaker (software engineer), notableWork, How to Break Software]

A. How To Become A Hacker
"How To Become A Hacker" is a widely read essay by Eric S. Raymond that explains hacker culture, ethics, and the skills and attitudes needed to participate in the open-source software community.
B. SmartBear Software
SmartBear Software is a software company known for its tools that support API development, testing, and monitoring, including stewardship of the popular Swagger ecosystem.
C. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a highly influential essay and book on open-source software development that contrasts centralized, top-down programming models with decentralized, collaborative approaches.
D. The Practice of Programming
The Practice of Programming is a widely respected book by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike that teaches practical software development techniques, emphasizing clear code, debugging, testing, and performance.
E. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Working Effectively with Legacy Code is a widely respected software engineering book by Michael Feathers that teaches practical techniques for understanding, testing, and safely modifying existing codebases.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: How to Break Software
Target entity description: "How to Break Software" is a practical software testing book that teaches systematic techniques for finding defects by thinking like an attacker of software systems.

A. How To Become A Hacker
"How To Become A Hacker" is a widely read essay by Eric S. Raymond that explains hacker culture, ethics, and the skills and attitudes needed to participate in the open-source software community.
B. SmartBear Software
SmartBear Software is a software company known for its tools that support API development, testing, and monitoring, including stewardship of the popular Swagger ecosystem.
C. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a highly influential essay and book on open-source software development that contrasts centralized, top-down programming models with decentralized, collaborative approaches.
D. The Practice of Programming
The Practice of Programming is a widely respected book by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike that teaches practical software development techniques, emphasizing clear code, debugging, testing, and performance.
E. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Working Effectively with Legacy Code is a widely respected software engineering book by Michael Feathers that teaches practical techniques for understanding, testing, and safely modifying existing codebases.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ software testing book ⓘ
aimsAt	quality assurance engineers ⓘ software developers ⓘ software testers ⓘ
approach	systematic test case design ⓘ thinking like an attacker of software systems ⓘ
author	James A. Whittaker ⓘ
contains	checklists for defect discovery ⓘ practical testing examples ⓘ step-by-step test procedures ⓘ
countryOfPublication	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
covers	boundary testing concepts ⓘ common software failure modes ⓘ error guessing techniques ⓘ input domain testing ⓘ
emphasizes	attacking software from the outside ⓘ systematic exploration of input space ⓘ test design over test execution ⓘ
field	software engineering ⓘ software testing ⓘ
focusesOn	attacker mindset in testing ⓘ defect discovery ⓘ practical software testing ⓘ
genre	non-fiction ⓘ technical literature ⓘ
intendedOutcome	earlier detection of software defects ⓘ higher software reliability ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
objective	help readers find more bugs in less time ⓘ improve effectiveness of software testing ⓘ
publisher	Addison-Wesley ⓘ
relatedWork	How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing ⓘ linked to: How to Break Software
teaches	black-box testing techniques ⓘ systematic techniques for finding software defects ⓘ
topic	defect-based testing ⓘ risk-based testing ⓘ test heuristics ⓘ
usedAs	reference for software testing courses ⓘ
usedBy	practicing software testers ⓘ students of software engineering ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

James Whittaker (software engineer) → notableWork → How to Break Software ⓘ

James Whittaker (software engineer) → notableWork → How to Break Software Security ⓘ

linked to: How to Break Software

How to Break Software → relatedWork → How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing ⓘ