Reducing test effort: A systematic mapping study on existing approaches

Elberzhager, Frank; Rosbach, Alla; Münch, Jürgen; Eschbach, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2012.04.007

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“…Many studies have been using the rubric in their synthesis and found that only few studies achieved high scores on practical relevance (cf. [11,15,20,25]). …”

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Action research as a model for industry-academia collaboration in the software engineering context

Petersen

Gencel

Asghari

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Long-Term Industrial Collaboration on Software Engineering

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Background: Action research is a well-established research methodology. It is following a post-positivist research philosophy grounded in critical thinking. The methodology is driven by practical problems, emphasis participatory research, and develops practically useful solutions in an iterative manner. Objective: Two objectives are to be achieved: (1) Understanding the state of the art with respect to action research usage in the software engineering literature, and (2) reflecting and providing recommendations of how to foster industry-academia collaboration through action research. Method: Based on our experience with two action research studies in close collaboration with Ericsson lessons learned and guidelines are presented. Results: In both cases presented action research led to multiple refinements in the interventions implemented. Furthermore, the close collaboration and co-production with the industry was essential to identify and describe the required refinements to provide an in-depth understanding. In comparison with previous studies, we required multiple iterations while previous software engineering studies reported mostly one iteration, or were not explicit regarding the number of iterations studied. Conclusion: We conclude that action research is a powerful tool for industry-academia collaboration. The success of the method highly depends on the researchers and practitioners working in a team. Future studies need to improve the reporting with respect to describing the type of action research used, the iterations, the model of collaboration, and the rationales for changes in each iteration.

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“…Many studies have been using the rubric in their synthesis and found that only few studies achieved high scores on practical relevance (cf. [11,15,20,25]). …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Action research as a model for industry-academia collaboration in the software engineering context

Petersen

Gencel

Asghari

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Long-Term Industrial Collaboration on Software Engineering

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“…For traditional software development, reduction of test effort (often with maintained level of quality assurance as an implicitly or explicitly stated constraint) is a widely studied field [3], [4]. Reduction of test effort commonly focuses on reducing time and cost for regression testing, as it is a frequently occurring activity in contemporary software development.…”

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Vertical Test Reuse for Embedded Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study

Flemström

Sundmark

Afzal

2015

2015 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

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Abstract-Vertical test reuse refers to the the reuse of test cases or other test artifacts over different integration levels in the software or system engineering process. Vertical test reuse has previously been proposed for reducing test effort and improving test effectiveness, particularly for embedded system development. The goal of this study is to provide an overview of the state of the art in the field of vertical test reuse for embedded system development. For this purpose, a systematic mapping study has been performed, identifying 11 papers on vertical test reuse for embedded systems. The primary result from the mapping is a classification of published work on vertical test reuse in the embedded system domain, covering motivations for reuse, reuse techniques, test levels and reusable test artifacts considered, and to what extent the effects of reuse have been evaluated.

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“…Also the softwaretesting process is a costly process, and complete testing is practically impossible. Many software organizations are spending up to 40% of their resources on testing [2]. Therefore, an alternative should be thought of to reduce testing effort without affecting the quality level of the final software.…”

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Developing software product and test automation software using Agile methodology

Sultania¹

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 Third International Conference on Computer, Communication, Control and Information Technology (C3IT)

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The use of testing framework has become a growing requirement in software development. This framework is a kind of software which can automate the pre-generated test cases. So, for developing test automation software an incremental and timeframe iterative approach known as Agile Software Development Methodology can be used. It provides software developers a working test framework early with respect to traditional software development methods e.g. waterfall model. In this paper, an approach of developing test automation software with closed collaboration with product development team is discussed. The proposed method modifies the Agile Development method with scrum by introducing few meetings for combined teams working for development of software product and test automation software.

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Reducing test effort: A systematic mapping study on existing approaches

Cited by 51 publications

References 122 publications

Action research as a model for industry-academia collaboration in the software engineering context

Action research as a model for industry-academia collaboration in the software engineering context

Vertical Test Reuse for Embedded Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study

Developing software product and test automation software using Agile methodology

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