Using the Findings of a Mapping Study to Conduct a Research Project: A Case in Knowledge Management in Software Testing

Secondary studies in the academic context: A systematic mapping and survey

“…• S25 -In summary, Souza and others [36] argue that SMS had a great importance in conducting their Ph.D. projects. For example, from the findings of a mapping on Knowledge Management (KM) in Software Testing they noticed that the application of KM strategies in the field of software testing was a very promising research area.…”

“…Only 4 studies (14.2%) assessed the use of EBSE by SLR experts (S10 [7]; S11 [25]; S15 [12]; S19 [32]). Some categories that were identified are strongly related, for instance, [18]; S4 [19]; S5 [20]; S6 [21]; S8 [23]; S10 [7]; S12 [26]; S13 [27]; S22 [34]; S23 [35]; S24 [36]; S25 [37]; S26 [9]; and S27 [38] Journal 9 (32.1%) -S7 [22]; S11 [25]; S14 [28]; S15 [12]; S17 [30]; S18 [31]; S19 [32]; S21 [8]; and S28 [39] Symposium 4 (14.2%) -S1 [16]; S9 [24]; S16 [29]; and S20 [33] undergraduate and Masters (e.g. S16 [29]); Masters and Ph.Ds.…”

“…Total of studies -Studies ID (B1) Developing research skills 5 -S1 [16]; S2 [17]; S8 [23]; S20 [33]; S22 [34] (B2) Encouraging students to reflect 5 -S2 [17]; S8 [23]; S14 [28]; S24 [36]; S25 [37] (B3) Helping find out research opportunities 3 -S9 [24]; S15 [12]; S24 [36] (B4) Providing an overview of the literature 5 -S12 [26]; S15 [12]; S20 [33]; S22 [34]; S24 [36] (B5) Perceiving the importance of searching for evidence 6 -S4 [19]; S5 [20]; S7 [22]; S8 [23]; S9 [24]; S22 [34] (B6) Acquiring experience of reading/understanding scientific studies 5 -S1 [16]; S2 [17]; S8 [23]; S15 [12]; S25 [37] (B7) Learning from studies and getting knowledge 4 -S9 [24]; S15 [12]; S20 [33]; S25 [37] (B8) Publishing a paper 1 -S9 [24] (B9) Providing baselines to assist new research efforts 3 -S15 [12]; S15 [12]; S24 [36] (B10) Collaborating with other researchers (teamwork) 2 -S17 [30]; S26 [9] inclusion/exclusion criteria (S6, S10, S12, S13, S14, S16, S19, S21, S27), that are only faced by students due to their limited experience with secondary studies in particular and with research in general.…”

Development of an Ontology-based Approach for Knowledge Management in Software Testing

“…OntoT-KM is supported by ROoST, in particular, to structure the KMS knowledge repository. Moreover, OntoT-KM guidelines are based on the findings of the SM presented in (Souza et al, 2015a), and the results of a survey performed with testing practitioners presented in (Souza et al, 2015b).…”

ROoST: Reference Ontology on Software Testing

“…Managing testing knowledge is not an easy task, and thus it is better to start with a small-scale initiative. So, we performed a survey to define a scenario for applying KM in software testing (Souza et al, 2015b). The purpose of our survey was to identify which is the most appropriate scenario in the software testing domain, from the point of view of testing stakeholders, for starting a KM initiative.…”