Abstract
An Empirical Investigation of Software Testing Methods and Techniques in the Province of Vojvodina
Highlights
The survey results have shown that respondents use to a significant extent the techniques belonging to ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 testing standard
At the lowest linkage level, the cluster of Statement Coverage and Branch Coverage was formed. They are extended by Condition Coverage, Loop Coverage, and Boundary Value Analysis, so that the first cluster at the highest level comprises a total of five testing techniques
The survey results that we reached lead to a conclusion that respondents in software organisations in the Province of Vojvodina use to a significant extent most of the techniques belonging to ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 testing standard when conducting the software testing process
Summary
Living in the era of pervasive computing, we become conscious of ubiquitous significance of software products in the case of its total absence, as foreseen by Beluzzo two decades ago [1], and when software fails in "making life and business more comfortable and efficient" due to defects [1].For a considerable amount of time, software defects have not been the exclusive topic of highly specialized, professional IT journals and web portals; their being practically daily phenomenon is () testified to in general daily press and portals of general subject area, writing about this phenomenon from the viewpoint of everyman customer.The above claim can be supported by several illustrative, randomly picked examples of globally known cases of software defects occurring in the past few years: an online retailer offered items at the price of 1 penny [2], and an airline even offered free tickets [3]. A financial services company lost 440 million dollars within 30 minutes due to a software defect [4]. Emergency services were unavailable to more than 11 million people for 6 hours [8], more than 600 suspected cases of child abuse were not reported to the police for a year and a half [9], about 3200 inmates were released from prisons earlier, etc. One can deem as usual the news that software defects caused delay in the release of operative systems and software products [11], recall of cars [12], problems with consumer electronics [13], and issues with social networks [14]
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