The State of Knowledge in Commercial Software Testing

The core material in this book is called The Most Important Tests-MITs-Test Management Method. MITs has been offered as a seminar since 1991. Beginning in 1992, students were asked to fill out the written test survey before the class. A voice survey was added in 1993 when the seminar was offered for the first time in Europe.

The Written Survey

The written survey sought to establish the following:

  • The respondent's role as practitioner or manager, and the type of group in which the respondent worked, such as development, test, or operations.

  • The respondent's level of knowledge of software testing basics and ability to define the test activities he or she performs regularly.

  • The type of testing being conducted.

  • The types of metrics, if any, that are in use.

  • The level of interest in test automation and the automation tools being used.

  • The level of competency respondents have in the tasks identified as those they are expected to perform in their job. (Respondents were asked to identify the types of testing they perform in their job and then provide definitions of those tasks. Definitions provided by respondents are good indicators of competency in the tasks identified.)

The Voice Survey

  • Supplemented the written survey and collected information that students might not want to write on a survey form.

  • Determined how long respondents had been involved in testing.

  • Requested educational background of the respondents.

  • Determined commonly used metrics for bug tracking and measuring the effectiveness of the test effort, analysis methods, and attitudes about these metrics.



Software Testing Fundamentals
Software Testing Fundamentals: Methods and Metrics
ISBN: 047143020X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 132

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