A Business Software Testing Process-Based Model Design

Abstract

This study analyzes relevant contemporary software testing process models. In addition to contemporary theoretical models, the study also analyzes business software testing process models in a considerable number of software organizations. The dual (i.e. theoretical and empirical) analysis of the testing process aims to provide a basis for a testing process model design which is speci¯c to testing business software in small and medium software organizations. The empirical study was conducted by a survey research strategy in 24 software organizations. In order to gather detailed information on the testing process, an interview was conducted on a purpose-selected sample of four organizations. The gathered data were processed by quantitative and qualitative data analysis. The results of theoretical and empirical research were used as a basis for attaining the study's desired outcome: the business software testing process-based model which was graphically presented in BPMN 2.0 notation and described according to the ISO/IEC TR 24774 standard for process description in systems and software engineering. The combination of the graphic representation of the model and its description in compliance with the process description is a proven method in process management, which should enable easier understanding, and thus the implementation of the model in small and medium software organizations.

Tolerance in Model-Driven Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review with Model-Driven Tool Support

“…Modelling languages were investigated with a focus on the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) language (Wolny et al 2020), the QVT Operational (QVTo) standard (Gerpheide et al 2014(Gerpheide et al , 2016, and the application of modelling in Industry 4.0 (Wortmann et al 2020(Wortmann et al , 2017. Further MDE-related work investigates literature on models at runtime (Szvetits & Zdun 2016), software testing process models (Vukovic et al 2018), articles that appeared in the Journal of Software and Systems Modelling (Gray & Rumpe 2016), and quality in MDE (Goulão et al 2016). In the requirements engineering domain, studies on software tooling for requirement elicitation (Iqbal et al 2019) and software testing in the context of agile software development (Coutinho et al 2019) have been presented.…”