More than 40 security software technologists and anti-malware testers from around the world recently met in Bilbao, Spain to formalize the charter of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, or AMTSO. The formation of AMTSO has been driven by industry- wide concern about the increasing mismatch between what anti-malware technologies actually do, and the testing methodologies used to evaluate them. As anti-malware solutions become more complex, many existing tests are unable to evaluate product effectiveness properly, resulting in product reviews that are sometimes incomplete, inaccurate and misleading.

Most software testing books deal with software testing concepts like “What is testing?, “Types of testing” and “testing methodologies”. So when I started reading this book I expected to read a lot of the same things again. But as I progressed I felt that this book is different, Glenford Myers has done a good job. This book does cover the same subjects, but in a more interesting way. The author’s approach is practical rather than theoretical.