The Business of Software Testing: Failing to Succeed.

The article discusses software testing, looking at how testing can be used as a knowledge acquisition process instead of as a quality assurance activity. The author discusses how defects which are found during testing can be constructively applied to software and examines the concept of orders of ig...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 10; pp. 30 - 32
Autor principal: Phillip G. Armour
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2011
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Sumario:The article discusses software testing, looking at how testing can be used as a knowledge acquisition process instead of as a quality assurance activity. The author discusses how defects which are found during testing can be constructively applied to software and examines the concept of orders of ignorance. Information is provided on managing test complexity, what constitutes a successful test, and the transmission of information.