Software Testing is Serious Business: A Holistic Approach

软件测试是一件严肃的事情：整体方法

• 批准号: RGPIN-2020-04325
• 负责人: Capretz, Luiz
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=716970
• 关键词: Software; Testing; Serious; Business; Holistic

Software testing is a crucial supporting processes of the software life cycle. Unfortunately for the software industry, the role of software tester is stigmatized, mostly due to misconceptions associated with the role and partly because the treatment given to software testers. Therefore the role of software tester does not appear to be one of the preferred roles among software practitioners. A complete shift in the software testing mindset is necessary in order to empower software engineers to create software-enabled world that can be relied upon. There is a need for reversing the professional's perceptions regarding this role by using career progression and other related approaches, both non-technical and technical, to reinforce the crucial dimension that software testers brings to the projects. It has been pointed out that social factors play a significant role in software testing practices. This research addresses previously uncarved enablers in the realm of software testing, namely social insight into testing and test visualization. These two enablers will bring about the three key innovations of this research program that combined will greatly expand the knowledge needed by software engineers with regard to testing. This understanding will support building the theory needed by software engineers during testing. The proposed research projects are a vital component of the PI's research vision and are intended to pursue the following three objectives: (a) a model describing human stimuli and inhibitors for software testing by studying the (un)popularity of software testing among software engineering students and software practitioners; (b) a novel test analytics engine that encompasses a wide variety of software development data. These analytics enable software engineers to get insight into test activities at the personal and team level; and (c) a new test visualization approach that facilitates understanding test scenarios and highlighting possibilities for variation in existing test scenarios. The insights thus obtained broaden the scope of test scenarios, stimulating the creation of both best case and worst case test scenarios and making the creation of variant test scenarios easier and more effective.

软件测试是软件生命周期的重要支撑过程。不幸的是，对于软件行业来说，软件测试人员的角色是污名化的，主要是由于与角色相关的误解，部分原因是软件测试人员的待遇。因此，软件测试人员的角色似乎并不是软件从业人员的首选角色之一。 为了使软件工程师能够创建可以依赖的软件支持的世界，软件测试心态的完全转变是必要的。有必要通过使用职业发展和其他相关方法（非技术和技术）来扭转专业人员对这一角色的看法，以加强软件测试人员为项目带来的关键方面。社会因素在软件测试实践中起着重要的作用。 这项研究解决了以前未雕刻的使能者在软件测试领域，即社会洞察测试和测试可视化。这两个使能者将带来本研究计划的三个关键创新，这些创新相结合将大大扩展软件工程师在测试方面所需的知识。这种理解将支持软件工程师在测试过程中建立所需的理论。 拟议的研究项目是PI研究愿景的重要组成部分，旨在追求以下三个目标：（a）通过研究软件工程学生和软件从业者中软件测试的（非）普及性，描述软件测试的人类刺激和抑制因素的模型;（B）一种新颖的测试分析引擎，包括各种各样的软件开发数据。这些分析使软件工程师能够深入了解个人和团队层面的测试活动;（c）一种新的测试可视化方法，有助于理解测试场景并突出现有测试场景中变化的可能性。由此获得的见解拓宽了测试场景的范围，刺激了最佳情况和最差情况测试场景的创建，并使变体测试场景的创建更容易和更有效。