Summary: Relevant Empirical Testing Research: Challenges and Responses
James H. Andrews
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, CANADA N6A 5B7
Abstract
Empirical research on software testing that aims to be
relevant to industry faces important challenges. In this po­
sition paper, we review the background on software testing
research and discuss some of the most important challenges.
We then give suggestions on how to respond to these chal­
lenges.
1. Background
Goals of SQA. We take as our starting point the received
wisdom about the goals of the software quality assurance
enterprise in general. Figure 1, adapted from [MC96], sum­
marizes this wisdom. Given an organization that is devel­
oping, maintaining or evolving software, there are costs to
the organization to do with releasing poor­quality software.
These costs decrease as the ``level of quality'' we achieve

Source: Andrews, Jamie - Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario

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