Software Testing Techniques

1 Introduction1
Software testing is as old as the hills in the history of digital computers. The testing of software is an important means of assessing the software to determine its quality. Since testing typically consumes 40~50% of development efforts, and consumes more effort for systems that require higher levels of reliability, it is a significant part of the software engineering. With the development of Fourth generation languages (4GL), which speeds up the implementation process, the proportion of time devoted to testing increased. As the amount of maintenance and upgrade of existing systems grow, significant amount of testing will also be needed to verify systems after changes are made [12]. Despite advances in formal methods and verification techniques, a system still needs to be tested before it is used. Testing remains the
truly effective means to assure the quality of a software system of non-trivial complexity [13], as well as one of the most intricate and least understood areas in software engineering [19]. Testing, an important research area within computer science is likely to become even more important in the future.
This retrospective on a fifty-year of software testing technique research examines the maturation of the software testing technique research by tracing the major research results that have contributed to the growth of this area. It also assesses the change of research paradigms over time by tracing the types of research questions and strategies used at various stages. We employ the technology maturation model given by Redwine and Riddle [15] as the framework of our studies of how the techniques of software testing first get the idea formulated, preliminarily used, developed, and then extended into a broader solution. Shaw gives a very good framework of software engineering research paradigms in [17], which classifies the research settings, research approaches, methods, and research validations that have been done by software
researchers. Shaw’s model is used to evaluate the research strategies for testing techniques used in our paper.
You would..
Share
Related Documents
  1. Top 20 practical software testing tips you should read before testing any application. (3493)
  2. Mobile Application Testing (12014)
  3. Testing Computer Software : Common Software Errors (2543)
  4. Software Testing Techniques (932)
  5. Applied Software Project Management : Software Testing (1532)
  6. Software Testing Techniques (1109)
  7. Software Testing: Concepts, Issues And Techniques (1700)
  8. Software Testing and Software Development Lifecycles (2431)
  9. The future of software testing Part one – Testing in production (1607)
  10. Test Estimation technique (3383)
  11. Software Testing-Testing Validation (3273)
  12. Software Testing Techniques - Doc (1701)
  13. Software Testing Fundamentals—Concepts, Roles, and Terminology (1241)
  14. Software Testing and Quality assurance (1027)
  15. [Ebook] Test Case Design in Testing (THIẾT KẾ TEST-CASE TRONG KIỂM THỬ PHẦN MỀM ) (5399)
  16. Introduction to testing software+solution (1035)
  17. Software Testing Seminar (828)
  18. Software Testing Methodologies (1258)
  19. [Ebook] Exploratory Software Testing (3961)
  20. Introduction of Software Testing (858)