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Bridge the Gap between Software Test Process and Business Value: A Case Study

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Trustworthy Software Development Processes (ICSP 2009)

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For a software project to succeed, acceptable quality must be achieved within an acceptable cost, providing business value to the customers, and keeping delivery time short. Software testing is a strenuous and expensive process and is often not organized to maximize business value. In this article, we propose a practical value based software testing method which aligns the internal test process with the value objectives coming from the customers and the market. Our case study in a real-life business project shows that this method helps manage testing process effectively and efficiently.

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  1. University of Southern California, USA

    Qi Li, Thomas Tan & Barry Boehm

  2. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    Mingshu Li, Ye Yang, Qing Wang & Chenyong Hu

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  1. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.4 South Fourth Street, Zhong Guan Cun, 100190, Beijing, China

    Qing Wang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

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  3. Department of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Bullard Hall, Room 201J, 777 Dyer Road, CA 93943, Monterey, USA

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Li, Q. et al. (2009). Bridge the Gap between Software Test Process and Business Value: A Case Study. In: Wang, Q., Garousi, V., Madachy, R., Pfahl, D. (eds) Trustworthy Software Development Processes. ICSP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01680-6_20

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