Title :
The PDCA-based software testing improvement framework
Author :
Xu-Xiang, Li ; Zhang Wen-Ning
Author_Institution :
Software Technol. Sch., ZhengZhou Univ., Zhengzhou, China
Abstract :
As one of the most challenging and costly processes, the software testing provides strong support for the high quality software. The popular process improvement models do not adequately address testing application issues, nor has the knowledge management (KM) implementation in testing been well defined. The plan-do-check-action (PDCA)-based testing improvement framework is proposed to address these issues. The framework contains the adaptive processes definition, the processes implementation and measurement analysis, and benchmarking-based assessment approach. Experiments show that: the framework can stimulate team member´s subjective initiative, promote the software testing process and improve the testing service quality.
Keywords :
program testing; software process improvement; software quality; PDCA; adaptive process; benchmarking-based assessment; plan-do-check-action-based testing; software testing improvement; software testing service quality; Benchmark testing; Organizations; Software; Software testing; Standards organizations; PDCA; Testing process; benchmarking; knowledge management;
Conference_Titel :
Apperceiving Computing and Intelligence Analysis (ICACIA), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8025-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICACIA.2010.5709948