Context: Software testing is a crucial area in software development. It has been found that
there is little evidence on how testing is performed in software automotive domain …

Context: Value stream mapping (VSM) as a tool for lean development has led to significant
improvements in different industries. In a few studies, it has been successfully applied in a …

Value stream mapping (VSM) is one of the several Lean practices, which has recently
attracted interest in the software engineering community. In other contexts (such as military …

Value stream mapping (VSM) has been successfully applied in the context of software
process improvement. However, its current adaptations from Lean manufacturing focus …

Custom-developed adaptations of software products are increasingly important to meet
different and changing customer needs and heterogeneous system environments. Efficient …

Background: The continued success of Lean thinking beyond manufacturing has led to an
increasing interest to utilize it in software engineering (SE). Value Stream Mapping (VSM) …

In this thesis, the components important for testing work and organisational test process are
identified and analysed. This work focuses on the testing activities in reallife software …

For a software project to succeed, acceptable quality must be achieved within an acceptable
cost, providing business value to the customers, and keeping delivery time short. Software …

CONTEXT: In large software organizations with a product line development approach,
system test planning and scope selection is a complex task. Due to repeated testing: across …

Testing is one of the most resource-intensive activities in software development and
consumes between 30 and 50% of total development costs according to many studies …