A preliminary survey on software testing practices in Australia

Author

Ng, S.P. ; Murnane, T. ; Reed, K. ; Grant, D. ; Chen, T.Y.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol., Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Hawthorn, Australia

fYear

2004

fDate

2004

Firstpage

116

Lastpage

125

Abstract

We present the findings of, to the best of our knowledge, the first survey on software testing practices carried out in Australian ICT industry. A total of 65 organizations from various major capital cities in Australia participated in the survey, which was conducted between 2002 and 2003. The survey focused on five major aspects of software testing, namely testing methodologies and techniques, automated testing tools, software testing metrics, testing standards, and software testing training and education. Based on the survey results, current practices in software testing are reported, as well as some observations and recommendations for the future of software testing in Australia for industry and academia.

Keywords

program testing; software metrics; software standards; Australian ICT industry; automated testing tool; software engineering; software testing education; software testing metrics; software testing practice; testing standard; Australia; Automatic testing; Best practices; Computer Society; Computer industry; Industrial training; Software engineering; Software quality; Software standards; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 Australian

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2089-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASWEC.2004.1290464

Filename

1290464