Value-based Management of Software Testing (bibtex)
by Rudolf Ramler, Stefan Biffl, Paul Grünbacher
Abstract:
Testing is one of the most resource-intensive activities in software development and consumes between 30 and 50% of total development costs according to many studies. Testing is however often not organized to maximize business value and not aligned with a project mission. Path, branch, instruction, mutation, scenario, or requirement testing usually treat all aspects of software as equally important, while in practice 80% of the value often comes from 20% of the software. In order to maximize the return of investment gained from software testing, the management of testing needs to maximize its value contribution. In this chapter we motivate the need for value-based testing, describe practices supporting the management of value-based testing, outline a framework for value-based test management, and illustrate the framework with an example.
Reference:
Value-based Management of Software Testing (Rudolf Ramler, Stefan Biffl, Paul Grünbacher), Chapter in (Stefan Biffl, Aybuke Aurum, B.W Boehm, Hakan Erdogmus, Paul Grünbacher, eds.), Springer Verlag, 2005.
Bibtex Entry:
@INBOOK{Ramler2005,
  pages = {225-244},
  title = {Value-based Management of Software Testing},
  publisher = {Springer Verlag},
  year = {2005},
  editor = {Stefan Biffl and Aybuke Aurum and Boehm, B.W and Hakan Erdogmus and
	Paul Grünbacher},
  author = {Rudolf Ramler and Stefan Biffl and Paul Grünbacher},
  abstract = {Testing is one of the most resource-intensive activities in software
	development and consumes between 30 and 50% of total development
	costs according to many studies. Testing is however often not organized
	to maximize business value and not aligned with a project mission.
	Path, branch, instruction, mutation, scenario, or requirement testing
	usually treat all aspects of software as equally important, while
	in practice 80% of the value often comes from 20% of the software.
	In order to maximize the return of investment gained from software
	testing, the management of testing needs to maximize its value contribution.
	In this chapter we motivate the need for value-based testing, describe
	practices supporting the management of value-based testing, outline
	a framework for value-based test management, and illustrate the framework
	with an example.},
  booktitle = {Value-based Software Engineering},
  doi = {10.1007/3-540-29263-2_11},
  isbn = {978-3-540-29263-0}
}
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