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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 10; pp. 30 - 32
Main Author: Phillip G. Armour
Format: Opinion
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2011
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