TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating software testing techniques and tools
AU - Vos, Tanja
AU - Marín, Beatriz
AU - Panach, Ignacio
AU - Baars, Arthur
AU - Ayala, Claudia
AU - Franch, Xavier
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Case studies can help companies to evaluate the benefits of testing techniques and tools before their possible incorporation into the testing processes. Although general guidelines and organizational frameworks exist describing what a case study should consist of, no general methodological framework exists that can be instantiated to easily design case studies to evaluate different testing techniques. In this paper we define a first version of a general methodological framework for evaluating software testing techniques, that focusses on the evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency. Using this framework, (1) software testing practitioners can more easily define case studies through an instantiation of the framework, (2) results can be better compared since they are all executed according to a similar design, and (3) the gap in existing work on methodological evaluation frameworks will be narrowed. 2011
AB - Case studies can help companies to evaluate the benefits of testing techniques and tools before their possible incorporation into the testing processes. Although general guidelines and organizational frameworks exist describing what a case study should consist of, no general methodological framework exists that can be instantiated to easily design case studies to evaluate different testing techniques. In this paper we define a first version of a general methodological framework for evaluating software testing techniques, that focusses on the evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency. Using this framework, (1) software testing practitioners can more easily define case studies through an instantiation of the framework, (2) results can be better compared since they are all executed according to a similar design, and (3) the gap in existing work on methodological evaluation frameworks will be narrowed. 2011
KW - Case study
KW - Evaluation
KW - Methodological framework
KW - Software testing techniques
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873897711&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference Article in proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84873897711
SN - 9788497494861
T3 - Actas de Jornadas de Ingenieria del Software y Bases de Datos, JISBD
SP - 531
EP - 536
BT - Actas de las 16th Jornadas de Ingenieria del Software y Bases de Datos, JISBD 2011
T2 - 16th Conference on Software Engineering and Databases, JISBD 2011
Y2 - 5 September 2011 through 7 September 2011
ER -