A Framework of Software Testing Metrics – Part 2

Measurement has always been fundamental to the progress to any engineering discipline and software testing is no exception. Software metrics have been used in making quantitative/qualitative decisions as well as in risk assessment and reduction in software projects. In this paper we discuss software measurement and metrics and their fundamental role in software development life cycle. This paper focusing on software test metrics discusses their key role in software testing process and also classifies and systematically analyzes the various test metrics.

2008

This paper discusses software test metrics and their ability to show objective evidence necessary to make process improvements in a development organization. When used properly, test metrics assist in the improvement of the software development process by providing pragmatic, objective evidence of process change initiatives. This paper also describes several test metrics that can be implemented, a method for creating a practical approach to tracking & interpreting the metrics, and illustrates one organization's use of test metrics to prove the effectiveness of process changes. Also, this paper provides the Balanced Productivity Metrics (BPM) strategy and approach in order to design and produce useful project metrics from basic test planning and defect data. Software test metrics is a useful for test managers, which aids in precise estimation of project effort, addresses the interests of metric group, software managers of the software organization who are interested in estimating software test effort and improve both development and testing processes.

Software testing and measurement are not separate engineering process facets – they interconnect within the lifecycle of a system development. The testing lifecycle process is not just a process of debugging or identifying defects within a program. The same can be said of change management, which is one of the fundamental processes of a management dichotomy of a project. This is due to the fact that change management provides the means for developers and project managers to document the change requests for each development artefacts, within a software development lifecycle. However, it is imperative that one is comfortable and well adept with the testing lifecycle, which in its entirety cannot slow the absence of defects: it can only show that software defects are present.

Software developers typically measure a Web application's quality of service in terms of webpage availability, response time, and throughput. Performance testing and evaluation of software components becomes a critical task. Poor quality of software performance can lead to bad opportunities. Few research papers address the issues and systematic solutions to performance testing and measurement for modern components of software. This paper proposes a solution and environment to support performance measurement for software. The objective is to provide all kind of important measures which must be tested at the coding phase instead of after completion of software. So developers can make software that can meet performance objectives.

2021

Testing is a task, which is performed to check the quality of the software and also this process is done for the improvement in software at the same time. Software testing is just testing software for the purpose of checking whether the behavior of the software is correctly working or not according to the user expectations. For knowing the full details of any software development there is a concept of software development life cycle (SDLC) which describes all the stages of the software development. There are various phases i.e., Analysis (ideation), Requirements (Documentation), Design, Development (implementation), Testing, Deployment (release), maintenance which is used to actual development of software according to the users requirement. The main goal of the software development life cycle is to provide error free software and fulfill the user’s expectations within the time limit. Testing of any software is basically a process which is used to assist in recognizing the completene...

Oriental Journal of Computer Science & Technology, 2010

Testing remains the truly effective means to assure the quality of a software system of nontrivial complexity. An important aspect of test planning is measuring test effectiveness. To make testing more successful we need to choose effective testing techniques. To compare testing techniques we need to place software testing techniques on a measurement scale which can define the relative merits of the existing testing techniques, but due to differences in software's and its allied parameters this task seems to be complex, if not impossible

2012

Abstract The reliability of delivered software depends on the performance of the individuals responsible for testing it. However, there are currently no standard methods for assessing the performance of software testers, nor even agreement on important assessment criteria. A literature review reveals several different human-centric factors that have been suggested as important. However, the relative importance of these factors is unknown.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2014

Software developers typically measure a Web application's quality of service in terms of webpage availability, response time, and throughput. Performance testing and evaluation of software components becomes a critical task. Poor quality of software performance can lead to bad opportunities. Few research papers address the issues and systematic solutions to performance testing and measurement for modern components of software. This paper proposes a solution and environment to support performance measurement for software. The objective is to provide all kind of important measures which must be tested at the coding phase instead of after completion of software. So developers can make software that can meet performance objectives.

2020

The paper explains the mathematical study of software testing and the measurement regarding software. Here we explain the planning regarding software testing and the metrics regarding software testing. Also the different attributes for the software test planning are discussed in this paper. The benefits of measurement in software testing are explained in detail here. This paper shows that the software measurement is the prime portion in the software testing.

A major component of the evaluation of a software testing process is the correct and meaningful synthesis of the gathered information. The focus of this literature review is to summarize definitions of a quality index for the evaluation of software testing. These definitions are created with the usage of different mathematical and statistical methods. The approaches that are being scrutinized in this paper are independent from the software development model, product’s domain, organization’s structure or size. In addition, the approaches explained in this paper do not require any special knowledge or background for their implementation in a software organization.