A taxonomy for software testing projects

Author

Calvo-Manzano Villalon, Jose ; Cuevas Agustin, Gonzalo ; San Feliu, Tomas Gilabert ; de Jesus Jimenez Puello, Jose

Author_Institution

Dept. Languages & Inf. Syst. & Software Eng., Polytech. Univ. of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

fYear

2015

fDate

17-20 June 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This article establishes taxonomy for software testing projects, allowing the development team or testing personnel to identify the tests to which the project must be subjected for validation. The taxonomy is focused on identifying software projects according to their technology. To establish the taxonomy, a development method comprised of 5 phases was applied. The developed taxonomy is comprised of 9 categories and 27 subcategories and was validated by a group of information technology (IT) managers and professionals in the field of IT through the use of a survey. The results obtained from the survey are subjected to the Mann-Whitney U test, which indicates that the taxonomy is validated. The taxonomy can be implemented in development organizations with or without a testing team that provides a classification for technology projects.

Keywords

program testing; IT managers; Mann-Whitney U test; information technology; software testing projects; taxonomy; Mobile communication; Protocols; Servers; Software; Software testing; Taxonomy; Taxonomy; software project; test software; test tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2015 10th Iberian Conference on

Conference_Location

Aveiro

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISTI.2015.7170545

Filename

7170545