Analysis of problems in testing practices

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 309-315

  Kasurinen, Jussi ^a   Taipale, Ossi ^a   Smolander, Kari ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Enhancement proposals; Grounded theory; Problems; Software testing; Test process

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ATTRIBUTES; CONFIGURABILITY; ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS; GROUNDED THEORY; ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TEST PROCESS; TESTABILITY; TESTING STRATEGIES; TESTING TOOLS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE TESTING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

PERSONNEL TESTING;

EID: 76349122653     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2009.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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