---
title: "Got new books!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/7/got-new-books.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/7/got-new-books.html"
published: "2004-05-07T11:05:00"
updated: "2004-05-07T11:05:00"
tags: ["Recommended books"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Just got these books: Coder To Developer by Mike Gunderloy - which I have a strong feeling is going to be next month's Book of the month Designing highly usable software Effective software test automation The last two I…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Got new books!

By Roy Osherove May 7, 2004 In [Recommended books](https://osherove.com/blog/category/recommended-books)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 7, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Just got these books:

- [Coder To Developer](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078214327X/iserializable-20) by [Mike Gunderloy](http://www.larkware.com/) \- which I have a strong feeling is going to be next month's _Book of the month_
- [Designing highly usable software](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0748401121/iserializable-20)
- [Effective software test automation](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0782143202/iserializable-20)

The last two I didn't get a chance to actually read yet so I don't know how good they are. I'll let you know.

However, next week I'm expecting to recive these two wonderful books:

- [Test Driven Development in .Net](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735619484/iserializable-20)
- [Framework Class Library Annotated reference volume 1](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321154894/iserializable-20)

both of which I can recommend both from all the other reviews I've heard and based on what I've been able to read from them thus far.

## More in Recommended books

[All posts in Recommended books](https://osherove.com/blog/category/recommended-books)

- Sep 14, 2005

    ### [Back to Basics before Indigo: \[Book\] Understanding COM+](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/9/14/back-to-basics-before-indigo-book-understanding-com.html)

- Apr 15, 2005

    ### [\[Book of the month\] Working effectively with legacy code](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/15/book-of-the-month-working-effectively-with-legacy-code.html)

- May 1, 2004

    ### [Book of the month: May](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/1/book-of-the-month-may.html)

- Apr 3, 2004

    ### [Book of the month for April](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/3/book-of-the-month-for-april.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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