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Combining research and education of software testing: a preliminary study

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This paper reports a preliminary study on combining research and education of software testing. We introduce some industrial-strength programs, from the open-source projects for research, into the assignments of system testing. Research assistants and teaching assistants work together to establish and evaluate the assignments of system testing. Our preliminary results show that research and education of software testing can benefit each other in this way.

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SAC '14: Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 2014
1890 pages
ISBN:9781450324694
DOI:10.1145/2554850
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  1. assignment design
  2. software testing education
  3. undergraduate teaching

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