Research Progress in Software Testing
Jin-Hui Shan · Acta Scicentiarum Naturalum Universitis Pekinesis · 2005
Software testing is one of the most important techniques used to assure the quality of software products. Software testing keeps a high proportion during the whole software life cycle. Gradually, software testing develops towards the former phase of software development and inosculates with the design and coding phases of software development. This paper introduces the basic ideas of software testing from the techniques and the process of software testing, persistent software testing, adequate criteria of software testing and so on. Then, this paper discusses some problems in software testing, including automated path-wise test data generation, test oracle, automated expected results generation, regression testing and so on. At last, this paper explores the development tendency of software testing, such as component testing, software testability, design by contract for testability in components and Web Services testing.