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Am I the only one that thinks the Manning book covers like those are egregious ugly?

hey Roy!

let your wife pick the cover! after all, she supported you in writing the book!

congratulations on your book - I am looking forward to it in the stores.

SBC

#5 looks like some kind of surveyor.  I like that as a metaphor.

By the way, see if you can convince them to spell your name correctly on the cover.

Hey Roy,

When will the book be available via MEAP?  Is there a date yet?

Cheers

Ben

Why all of these images reflect past times? The book is about new technologies, that means that something new, innovative can be on the cover...

For instance, there can be an instrument that measures precision...

I like the first one.

"Roy osherove is the sultan of unit testing"

I voted for 3.

he does look like someone you'd Mock ...

Roy,

#1 is the best, but you should go back to the drawing board and push Manning for some better pictures.  These are really low quality.

I usually like the Manning covers.  I have "Powershell in Action" and find the picture really interesting.

Chris

perhaps a cat-herder?

I vote for none of them! Seriously, these are butt-ugly. Of course what does a cover matter, it's the contents that make the book. Strange they got your name mis-spelled on the first three, but not the last. Personally I would ask for another set of selections. I understand the Manning-mantra is to have these figures on the cover (much like how they have animals on the O'Reilly books) but these choices suck so any choice from this set is as good as any I guess.

How about something from this century? Like legos?

I’m afraid that those are all indeed ugly. I think you need a better set to choose from, definitely something more modern in appearance.

Roy, none of these covers show me the essence of unit testing, where you have a test for one small piece at a time.

I see others agreed with me that 6 is the best.  It's hard to articulate why, but I think it's basically that the woman looks as if she's doing something complex, and we use unit testing to break down and manage complexity.  Or something.

These covers are terrible!  Are we talking about the same modern test practices here?

Don't settle.

I really don't like any of these covers - they wouldn't make me reach for this book :-/

Excuse me but WTH do those cover images have to do with unit testing?

I get a mental image of some small town and its citizens in the 18th century. Is that the message you want to send?

I recommend that you choose an image which is related to the contents of the book.

Clearly, image 6 conveys unit testing more than any of the others. That would be my choice.