I thrive on checklists and hate the ad-hoc way I do code reviews on my team. This sounds great, I'm going to go look for some basic formal checklists. I need language agnostic versions and/or versions for javascript, php, and python, if anyone has suggestions.
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The Art of Software Testing by Glenford Myers has an excellent language-agnostic checklist. See the chapter on “walkthroughs”
That is a book that, even in the third edition, has a paragraph that disparages random testing.
It's difficult for me to see how, in the era of jsfunfuzz, Csmith, AFL, and other such tools, such a source should be taken seriously.
I’ve never found a book on software I agreed 100% with. Even my favorites have some bits I think are dead wrong. It doesn’t mean the other parts aren’t valuable.
It means the book has not been updated, at least in that part. And the first edition of the book was written back when computing power was seven orders of magnitude more expensive (or more). Is advice about testing from then really going to be valid now?
A lot of people were right in worthwhile ways and wrong in other ways. For example, Newton.
You would be doing yourself a disservice to throw out all of Newton's results because he didn't grasp relativity.