Title :
Understanding the Influence of Social and Technical Factors Testers in Software Organizations
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Abstract :
This paper is presenting the research topic proposal "Understanding the influence of social and technical factors in software organizations". This research combines qualitative and quantitative methods while exploring the elements impacting the testing activities. The study\´s scope is to improve our understanding of the challenges faced on daily basis by testers in their activities, the motivation behind a testing career and to propose improvements for the testing practice and testers\´ image, while taking into consideration the social and technical nature of testing activities.
Keywords :
program testing; software management; social factors; software organizations; software testing; technical factors; testing activities; Companies; Engineering profession; Industries; Software; Software testing; software testing; testers; testing management; tests process improvement;
Conference_Titel :
Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Luembourg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5961-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICST.2013.76