Archive for February, 2006
Code Based vs. Usage Based Testing
Although many agreed that software testing is an integral part to ensure software quality, some software organizations are reluctant to include testing in their software cycle, because they are afraid of the high cost associated with testing. There are several factors that attribute to the cost of software testing:
Generating test cases is expensive – [...]
Brilliant People in the World
I was supposed to research on my written assignment about software testing, but while I was searching online I discovered several brilliant people whom I’ll never be able to match. First there’s John Whaley from Stanford, who has wrote several distinguishing papers on pointer analysis, and a compiler infrastructure “Joeq” used by many researchers. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Preventive Software Maintenance
This is the assignment I wrote on preventive software maintenance. I learnt 1 important thing from reading the papers: “Find defects while it’s early, because it’s going to be very expensive to fix it once it’s out.” So a message to the test team: keep on testing until 80% of code coverage is reached. The [...]
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