What is software testing? And why is it so hard?

By James A. Whittaker. 2000

390 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems, Software

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In Information Systems

1. Vladan Devedzic
2. Brent Hailpern
3. Padmanabhan Santhanam
4. Julie Arnold Shah
5. Bradley Hayes

In Software

1. Vladan Devedzic
2. Brent Hailpern
3. Padmanabhan Santhanam
4. Julie Arnold Shah
5. Bradley Hayes

Citations in the corpus

• Software debugging, testing, and verification (2002, methodology): “For software that has undergone many releases, one of the nagging questions has been the validation of the specifications of prior releases against the current release.(31) This is typically done via the execution of “regression” test cases (those used to validate prior releases) against the current”
• Software Project Management (2001, methodology): “Apart from mastering coding, testers must also possess a great deal of knowledge of formal languages, graph theory and algorithms [26], [48].”