10 Best Books for Testers in 2026

Best Books for Testers You Must Read

But which books truly stand out as the ultimate guides for testers? Let’s dive in and explore the must-reads that can transform your testing game!

1. Foundation of Software Testing

Foundation of Software Testing was my first book on testing and I have some bias towards it. Therefore it’s at first place. This book is a hardcore foundation building book that I would recommend to every newbie tester. This will help you understand simple yet necessary pillars of testing like test cases and test case management. However my favourite parts are, chapters on necessity of software testing. MUST READ!!

Author: Cem Kaner

2. Agile Estimating and Planning

Agile Estimating and Planning book is a recommended read if you want to learn about how to be a agile tester. The book’s speciality is it’s focus on testing planning methods and cases that can be faced in Agile testing. You would learn how to make a good plan within a sort of time and get to know about some of the basic tools that can be used in Agile development.

Author: Mike Cohn

3. A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps

A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps book intricately describes the continuous changes that kept coming in Agile development. You would learn the ways of automation testing especially with respect to agile development and how it can be practiced. A good book for Automation testers!!

Author: Katrine Clokie

4. Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

The Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook explains testing procedures related to building and running automated tests using Selenium for web applications. This book is a good start for web automation testers

Author: Unmesh Gundecha

5. Bug Advocacy

After reading the Bug Advocacy book, you will be able to identify what typical bugs and software solution generally has, report the bugs and the main how it can’t be introduced again. MUST Read for the learner’s or practitioners in testing!!

Author: Cem Kaner and Rebecca Fiedler

6. Software Testing

The Software Testing book builds on fundamentals focusing over strategies and procedure. It gets you upto speed with jargons and basic methodologies that you would need to do more advanced stuff down the line It provides the easy ways to figure out the most common software testing aspects.After learning you can easily perform tests over web applications, tests for usability, functionality and many others.

Author: Ron Patton

7. The Agile Samurai

The Agile Samurai book goes into detail about Agile world and how a good agile team can be formed. This book focuses upon modern testers and importance of understanding customer’s requirement especially in agile development setting. After learning you will be able to use agile techniques that will help to met the product as per the customer’s requirement. Must Read for Practitioners in Agile development.

Author: Jonathan Rasmusson

8. Implementing Automated Software Testing

As the name suggests, Implementing Automated Software Testing book will highlight why exactly how automation test work far better than other testings.It elaborates the skills and knowledge required for automation testing.

Author: Elfriede Dustin, Thom Garrett, and Bernie Gauf

9. Lessons Learned in Software Testing

A guide to common mistakes people make in the start of the QA jobs. The Lessons Learned in Software Testing book contains real examples that will help you overcome problems before they even arise and increase the efficiency of your test team.

Author: Cem Kaner

10. Experience of Test Automation

The Experience of Test Automation book contains 28 real life cases on automation testing together with 14 shorter anecdote. The experience the author had talked about will help you to develop your automation testing skills.

Author: Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster

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