Guest Editors' Introduction: Software Testing Practices in Industry

Juristo, Natália; Moreno, Ana; Strigel, Wolfgang

doi:10.1109/ms.2006.104

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“…Thus, testing in this context encompasses activities from the validation of the initial requirements to activities performed by customers to complete the acceptance of a product, and confirms that testing is still the most effective method of quality assurance, as observed in [46]. However, despite the obvious benefits aforementioned, the state of software testing practice is not as advanced in general as software development techniques [32] and, the same holds true in the SPL context [37,79]. From an industry point of view, with the growing SPL adoption by companies [81], more efficient and effective testing methods and techniques for SPL are needed, since the currently available techniques, strategies and methods make testing a very challenging process [46].…”

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A systematic mapping study of software product lines testing

Neto

Machado

McGregor

et al. 2011

Information and Software Technology

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a b s t r a c tContext: In software development, Testing is an important mechanism both to identify defects and assure that completed products work as specified. This is a common practice in single-system development, and continues to hold in Software Product Lines (SPL). Even though extensive research has been done in the SPL Testing field, it is necessary to assess the current state of research and practice, in order to provide practitioners with evidence that enable fostering its further development.Objective: This paper focuses on Testing in SPL and has the following goals: investigate state-of-the-art testing practices, synthesize available evidence, and identify gaps between required techniques and existing approaches, available in the literature. Method: A systematic mapping study was conducted with a set of nine research questions, in which 120 studies, dated from 1993 to 2009, were evaluated. Results: Although several aspects regarding testing have been covered by single-system development approaches, many cannot be directly applied in the SPL context due to specific issues. In addition, particular aspects regarding SPL are not covered by the existing SPL approaches, and when the aspects are covered, the literature just gives brief overviews. This scenario indicates that additional investigation, empirical and practical, should be performed. Conclusion:The results can help to understand the needs in SPL Testing, by identifying points that still require additional investigation, since important aspects regarding particular points of software product lines have not been addressed yet.

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“…In this approach, as in single-system development, testing is essential [36] to uncover defects [68,75]. A systematic testing approach can save significant development effort, increase product quality and, customer satisfaction and lower maintenance costs [32].…”

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A systematic mapping study of software product lines testing

Neto

Machado

McGregor

et al. 2011

Information and Software Technology

196

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“…It is a fact that testers have very limited knowledge of the techniques that are currently at their disposal [32]. On the other hand, testing does not receive as much attention as other software development activities in either research or business practice, meaning that industry testing practices are generally not very sophisticated or effective, and leave a lot to be desired [33]. Technology transfer between research and industry is insufficient, but so is intra-organizational knowledge transfer for such a critical and knowledge-intensive activity [28].…”

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An architectural model for software testing lesson learned systems

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Martínez

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Information and Software Technology

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“…The first and most important thing to be done is to recognize the complex nature of testing and take it seriously" (Whittaker 2000) Testing is a key part of any systems engineering project. The human effort spent on testing can easily exceed half the project total (Juristo et al 2006a;Tassey 2002;Brooks 1975). Inadequate testing has been the source of many systems failures (Patton 2006); Tassey (2002) has estimated that inadequate testing is costing the USA 59.5 billion dollars every year.…”

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Testing in the Wild: The Social and Organisational Dimensions of Real World Practice

Rooksby

Rouncefield

Sommerville

2009

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Testing is a key part of any systems engineering project. There is an extensive literature on testing, but very little that focuses on how testing is carried out in real-world circumstances. This is partly because current practices are often seen as unsophisticated and ineffective. We believe that by investigating and characterising the real-world work of testing we can help question why such 'bad practices' occur and how improvements might be made. We also argue that the testing literature is too focused on technological issues when many of the problems, and indeed strengths, have as much do with work and organisation. In this paper we use empirical examples from four systems engineering projects to demonstrate how and in what ways testing is a cooperative activity. In particular we demonstrate the ways in which testing is situated within organisational work and satisfices organisational and marketplace demands.

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Guest Editors' Introduction: Software Testing Practices in Industry

Cited by 36 publications

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A systematic mapping study of software product lines testing

A systematic mapping study of software product lines testing

An architectural model for software testing lesson learned systems

Testing in the Wild: The Social and Organisational Dimensions of Real World Practice

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