Reducing the Time to Product Stability through Global Testing

本研究的目标是调查全球测试基础设施，以确定减少产品稳定性时间的关键因素，同时提高开发组织的竞争地位。爱尔兰和美国的计算机科学研究生团队将在几个场景下对工业软件系统进行操作测试。他们将比较处理故障报告和软件更新的各种方法，以确定它们对未发现的缺陷的影响，缺陷的严重程度和类型，以及缺陷发生的模块的复杂性。教师和行业人员都是软件工程研究中心和NSF工业/大学合作研究中心的参与者。

The goal of this research is to investigate a global testing infrastructure to identify critical factors that reduce the time to product stability while improving the competitive position of developing organizations. Teams of graduate computer science students in Ireland and the United States will conduct operational testing on an industrial software system following several scenarios. They will compare various approaches of processing trouble reports and software updates to determine their impact on defects uncovered, the severity levels and types of defects, and the complexity of the modules in which the defects occurred. The faculty and industry personnel are all participants in the Software Engineering Research Center, and NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center.