A Web-based survey examined how software professionals used testing. The results offer
opportunities for further interpretation and comparison to software testers, project managers …

Researchers have reported that software testing techniques (STT) in general lack empirical
evidence, and yet empirical studies are still maturing in our field. Furthermore, validating …

A large gap exists between the state-of-the-art in software testing literature, and the state of
software testing practice. Empirical research should (and could) play a first class role for …

There have been many reports of catastrophic effects of software failures. Peter Neumann's
regular column Risks to the Public in ACM's Software Engineering Notes magazine lists …

Automated software testing has proven its value for software development increasingly over
the past few years. Software testing is an important phase in the entire software …

Despite decades of work by researchers and practitioners on numerous software quality
assurance techniques, testing remains one of the most widely practiced and studied …

This book is based on a series of lectures given at the National University of Ireland,
Maynooth and Zhejiang University. It provides a textbook for a number of courses …

Context Many organizations see software test automation as a solution to decrease testing
costs and to reduce cycle time in software development. However, establishment of …

This paper reports on a historical perspective of the evaluation studies present in software
testing research published in the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES) in …

Software organizations have typically de-emphasized the importance of software testing. In
an earlier study in 2004, our colleagues reported the results of an Alberta-wide regional …