Software testing is one of the key activities to achieve software quality in practice. Despite its
importance, however, we have a remarkable lack of knowledge on how developers test in …

We present a field study on how testers use knowledge while performing exploratory
software testing (ET) in industrial settings. We video recorded 12 testing sessions in four …

Context Software testing is the key to ensuring a successful and reliable software product or
service, yet testing is often considered uninteresting work compared to design or coding. As …

CONTEXT: Evidence-based software engineering (EBSE) provides a process for solving
practical problems based on a rigorous research approach. The primary focus so far was on …

Software testing is an integral part of modern software engineering practice. Past research
has not only underlined its significance, but also revealed its multi-faceted nature. The …

Context The key for effective problem prevention is detecting the causes of a problem that
has occurred. Root cause analysis (RCA) is a structured investigation of the problem to …

CONTEXT: The questions of how many individuals and how much time to use for a single
testing task are critical in software verification and validation. In software review and usability …

Practitioners have found exploratory testing (ET) to be cost effective in detecting defects. The
team exploratory testing (TET) approach scales exploratory testing to team level. This paper …

Context: Defect reporting is an important part of software development in-vivo, but previous
work from open source context suggests that defect reports often have insufficient …

The recent design shift towards multicore processors has spawned a significant amount of
research in the area of program parallelization. The future abundance of cores on a single …