The research community in Software Engineering and Software Testing in particular builds
many of its contributions on a set of mutually shared expectations. Despite the fact that they …

Software testing is one of the key activities to achieve software quality in practice. Despite its
importance, however, we have a remarkable lack of knowledge on how developers test in …

To determine how industry and academia approach software testing, researchers compared
the titles of presentations from selected conferences in each of the two communities. The …

Four papers and a roundtable discussion shed light on the current state of software testing
practices. Case studies from industry experience address topics including unit-testing …

The author sheds some light on why testing today's software products is so challenging, and
he identifies several solid approaches that all testers should be able to thoughtfully apply …

(TDD) is one of the most controversial agile practices in terms of its impact on software
quality and programmer productivity. After more than a decade's research, the jury is still out …

What do we know about software testing in the real world? It seems we know from Fred
Brooks' seminal work" The Mythical Man-Month" that 50% of project effort is spent on testing …

What is the impact of software engineering research on current practices in industry? In this
paper, I report on my direct experience as a PhD/post-doc working in software engineering …

Background: Test-driven development (TDD) is a technique that repeats short coding cycles
interleaved with testing. The developer first writes a unit test for the desired functionality …

Despite decades of work by researchers and practitioners on numerous software quality
assurance techniques, testing remains one of the most widely practiced and studied …