How good are your testers? An assessment of testing ability Export

@proceedings{citeulike:2459857, abstract = {During our previous research conducted in the Sheffield Software Engineering Observatory [11], we found that test first programmers spent a higher percentage of their time testing than those testing after coding. However as the team allocation was based on subjects' academic records and their preference, it was unclear if they were simply better testers. Thus this paper proposes two questionnaires to assess the testing ability of subjects, in order to reveal the factors that contribute to the previous findings. Preliminary results show that the testing ability of subjects, as measured by the survey, varies based on their professional skill level.}, author = {Huang, Liang and Thomson, Christopher and Holcombe, Mike}, booktitle = {Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference Practice and Research Techniques - MUTATION, 2007. TAICPART-MUTATION 2007}, citeulike-article-id = {2459857}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAICPART.2007.4344103}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4344103}, doi = {10.1109/TAICPART.2007.4344103}, journal = {Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference Practice and Research Techniques - MUTATION, 2007. TAICPART-MUTATION 2007}, keywords = {archive, observatory, testing}, pages = {82--88}, posted-at = {2008-03-03 08:21:45}, priority = {0}, title = {How good are your testers? An assessment of testing ability}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAICPART.2007.4344103}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2459857 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2459857 N2 - During our previous research conducted in the Sheffield Software Engineering Observatory [11], we found that test first programmers spent a higher percentage of their time testing than those testing after coding. However as the team allocation was based on subjects' academic records and their preference, it was unclear if they were simply better testers. Thus this paper proposes two questionnaires to assess the testing ability of subjects, in order to reveal the factors that contribute to the previous findings. Preliminary results show that the testing ability of subjects, as measured by the survey, varies based on their professional skill level. JF - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference Practice and Research Techniques - MUTATION, 2007. TAICPART-MUTATION 2007 EP - 88 TI - How good are your testers? An assessment of testing ability T2 - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference Practice and Research Techniques - MUTATION, 2007. TAICPART-MUTATION 2007 SP - 82 KW - archive KW - observatory KW - testing AU - Huang, Liang AU - Thomson, Christopher AU - Holcombe, Mike PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAICPART.2007.4344103 ER -