'Good' organisational reasons for 'bad' software testing: An ethnographic study of testing in a small software company

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 602-611

  Martin, David ^a   Rooksby, John ^b   Rouncefield, Mark ^b   Sommerville, Ian ^c  

^a XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; ORGANISATIONAL REALITIES; SOFTWARE COMPANY;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 34548742853     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2007.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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