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@article{citeulike:2365100, abstract = {A system using process and forms to give managers and tool evaluators a reliable way to identify the tool that best fits their organization's needs is discussed. It is shown that a tool evaluator must analyze user needs, establish selection criteria (including general criteria, environment-dependent criteria, tool-dependent functional criteria, tool-dependent nonfunctional criteria, and weighting), search for tools, select the tools, and then reevaluate the tools. Forms for recording tool selection criteria, classifying testing tools, profiling tool-to-organization interconnections, creating hardware and software profiles, and creating tool-interconnection profiles are presented. It is argued that, with these forms, evaluators have a reasonably accurate and consistent system for identifying and quantifying user needs, establishing tool-selection criteria, finding available tools, and selecting tools and estimating return on investment}, author = {Poston, R. M. and Sexton, M. P.}, booktitle = {Software, IEEE}, citeulike-article-id = {2365100}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/52.136165}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=136165}, doi = {10.1109/52.136165}, journal = {Software, IEEE}, keywords = {decision\_criteria}, number = {3}, pages = {33--42}, posted-at = {2008-02-12 07:46:30}, priority = {2}, title = {Evaluating and selecting testing tools}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/52.136165}, volume = {9}, year = {1992} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2365100 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2365100 N2 - A system using process and forms to give managers and tool evaluators a reliable way to identify the tool that best fits their organization's needs is discussed. It is shown that a tool evaluator must analyze user needs, establish selection criteria (including general criteria, environment-dependent criteria, tool-dependent functional criteria, tool-dependent nonfunctional criteria, and weighting), search for tools, select the tools, and then reevaluate the tools. Forms for recording tool selection criteria, classifying testing tools, profiling tool-to-organization interconnections, creating hardware and software profiles, and creating tool-interconnection profiles are presented. It is argued that, with these forms, evaluators have a reasonably accurate and consistent system for identifying and quantifying user needs, establishing tool-selection criteria, finding available tools, and selecting tools and estimating return on investment IS - 3 JF - Software, IEEE EP - 42 TI - Evaluating and selecting testing tools VL - 9 T2 - Software, IEEE SP - 33 KW - decision_criteria AU - Poston, RM AU - Sexton, MP PY - 1992/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/52.136165 ER -