A replicated empirical study to evaluate software testing methods

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. e1883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheikh Umar Farooq ◽  
S.M.K. Quadri ◽  
Nesar Ahmad
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mubarak Albarka Umar

<p><i>Software Testing is the process of evaluating a software program to ensure that it performs its intended purpose. Software testing verifies the safety, reliability, and correct working of software. The growing need for quality software makes software testing a crucial stage in Software Development Lifecycle. There are many methods of testing software, however, the choice of method to test a given software remains a major problem in software testing. Although, it is often impossible to find all errors in software, employing the right combination of methods will make software testing efficient and successful. Knowing these software testing methods is the key to making the right selection. This paper presents a comprehensive study of software testing methods. An explanation of Testing Categories was presented first, followed by Testing Levels (and their comparison), then Testing Techniques (and their comparison). For each Testing Levels and Testing Techniques, examples of some testing types and their pros and cons were given with a brief explanation of some of the important testing types. Furthermore, a clear and distinguishable explanation of two confused and contradictory terms (Verification and Validation) and how they relate to Software Quality was provided.</i></p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongfang Sun ◽  
Jianjun Li

Informationization plays an important role in modern life and production. And various software is one of the bases for it. Before it goes into service, software needs to go through many steps, including software development, design, etc. In software development, test is the key to identify and control bugs and errors in the software. Therefore, software companies often test the software to ensure that it is qualified. In recent years, more attention has been paid to a multi-platform computer software testing method, which can make up for defects in traditional testing methods to improve test accuracy. Firstly, this paper illustrates the connotation and features of software testing. Secondly, common software testing platforms and their requirements are analyzed. Finally, this paper proposes software testing method based on multiple platforms.


2015 ◽  
pp. 302-322
Author(s):  
Nikolai Kosmatov

Software testing in the cloud can reduce the need for hardware and software resources and offer a flexible and efficient alternative to the traditional software testing process. A major obstacle to the wider use of testing in the cloud is related to security issues. This chapter focuses on test generation techniques that combine concrete and symbolic execution of the program under test. Their deployment in the cloud leads to complex technical and security issues that do not occur for other testing methods. This chapter describes recent online deployment of such a technique implemented by the PathCrawler test generation tool for C programs, where the author faced, studied, and solved many of these issues. Mixed concrete/symbolic testing techniques not only constitute a challenging target for deployment in the cloud, but they also provide a promising way to improve the reliability of cloud environments. The author argues that these techniques can be efficiently used to help to create trustworthy cloud environments.


2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahid Garousi ◽  
Michael Felderer ◽  
Marco Kuhrmann ◽  
Kadir Herkiloğlu ◽  
Sigrid Eldh

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