Part III is very nice in that the author covers the application of testing to a variety of test situations including Web site testing. I have met many professional testers who could learn something from this book. The book provides test automation and test management guidance, and leads you every step of the way through the ATLM structured program, from the initial decision to implement automated software testing through test planning, execution and reporting. Automated Software Testing is the number one selling software testing book addressing test automation. One of only two books that I'm aware of that do a thorough treatment of software test automation.
Heavy emphasis is on path testing.
While I've read and enjoyed other books by Boris Beizer, I haven't gotten to this one yet. An Industry Best Practice by David A. Wheeler , Bill Brykczynski, Reginald Meeson. Michael Fagan's original paper is here as well as his later follow-up, 'Advances in Software Inspections'. Fagan also wrote an interesting forward to the book . There are several studies of results achieved at various companies.