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This paper addresses the questions, "Why is a test process necessary?" and "How can a "one size process "fit all lifecycles?" In answer to the first question, the paper will demonstrate that a test process based on the systems lifecycle, which is clearly understood by all stakeholders, will enable successful testing in all projects. The paper will then look at three common...
An organizational level test strategy needs to incorporate metrics to make the testing activities visible and available to process improvements. The majority of testing measurements that are done are based on faults found in the test execution phase. In contrast, this paper investigates metrics to support software test planning and test design processes. We have assembled metrics in these two process...
A generic test process should support all approaches "formal to informal" and mixed approaches within, and across, all test levels. But widely-accepted formal approaches, from current standards, certification syllabi and tools, have explicitly-defined test cases as the key underlying entity: not all real-life approaches use explicit test cases. Also, testing is maturing beyond merely "finding...
Due to the continuously growing possibilities provided by technology and its wider application, today's IT products are becoming more and more complex both from technical and managerial standpoints. Very often, multiple parties are involved in their development. Consequently, the organization of the integration and testing of these products gets increasingly complex. Organisations already encounter...
A process is an important concept in modern software development. Only when the activities are organized in process descriptions, can these be communicated, followed, observed, and improved. The basis for understanding what testing is, is therefore the understanding of the testing process. This paper presents the general concept of a process, and expands on this to present a suggestion for a generic...
Search-based software testing (SBST) has shown a potential to decrease cost and increase quality of testing- related software development activities. Research in SBST has so far mainly focused on the search for isolated tests that are optimal according to a fitness function that guides the search. In this paper we make the case for fitness functions that measure test fitness in relation to existing...
Search-based test data generation has been a considerably active research field recently. Several local and global search approaches have been proposed, but the investigation of artificial immune system (AIS) algorithms has been extremely limited. Our earlier results from testing six Java classes, exploiting a genetic algorithm (GA) to measure data- flow coverage, helped us identify a number of problematic...
A model management workflow typically consists of a number of interdependent model-management tasks such as model validation, transformation, merging, comparison and text generation. As such workflows are becoming more and more complex, errors in individual tasks are likely to be propagated to subsequent tasks and eventually compromise the operation of the entire workflow. Therefore, building confidence...
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