Context Software testing practices and processes in many companies are far from being
mature and are usually conducted in ad-hoc fashions. Such immature practices lead to …

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 …

Traditionally more effort has been devoted to technical and process aspects of software
quality and productivity. However, in an activity like software development so intensive in …

This paper attempts to understand motivators and de-motivators that influence the decisions
of software professionals to take up and sustain software testing careers across four different …

This work attempts to fill a gap by exploring the human dimension in particular, by trying to
understand the motivation of software professionals for taking up and sustaining their …

Software testing and debugging represents around one third of total effort in development
projects. Different factors which have influence on poor practices of testing have been …

As software systems are becoming more pervasive, they are also becoming more
susceptible to failures, resulting in potentially lethal combinations. Software testing is critical …

Context: Software development organizations need testers with high skill levels in a broad
range of technical areas and application domains. Accordingly, we need a better …

Abstract A Gamified Information System (GIS) implements game concepts and elements,
such as affordances and game design principles to motivate people. Based on the idea to …

Software testing is an essential activity in software development projects for delivering high
quality products. In a previous study, we reported the results of a survey of software …