What is software testing? And why is it so hard?
Whittaker, J.A.
Florida Inst. of Technol., Melbourne, FL;
This paper appears in: Software, IEEE
Publication Date: Jan/Feb 2000
Volume: 17,
Issue: 1
On page(s): 70-79
ISSN: 0740-7459
References Cited: 11
CODEN: IESOEG
INSPEC Accession Number: 6508828
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/52.819971
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
The author sheds some light on why testing today's software
products is so challenging, and he identifies several solid approaches
that all testers should be able to thoughtfully apply. The effective
tester has a rich toolkit of fundamental testing techniques, understands
how the product will be used in its operating environment, and has a
nose for where subtle bugs might lurk in the product and a bag of tricks
for flushing them out. The methods described can help testers provide a
sensible answer to the question of what they really mean when they say
they have finished testing a software system
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