This article presents the outcomes of how Dynamic Assessment (DA) may be organized to function within a class’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). The testing field also has recently undergone noticeable changes leading to a shift to use technology that is emerged in our era. The study investigated college students’ barriers and motivations for testing reading comprehension ability using the n...

Today component engineering is gaining substantial interest in the software engineering community. Although a lot of research effort has been devoted to analysis methods and design strategies of component-based software, a few papers address the testing of component-based software. The paper identifies and classifies the testing issues of software components and component-based software accordi...

As the number of new applications being developed for wireless/embedded devices such as PDAs, pagers, and cell phones increases, so does the demand for tools to automate the testing process on these new platforms. Through several consulting engagements, Chris Walters and I have had the opportunity to pioneer the use of Rational TestStudio to automate functional (or GUI) and performance testing ...

The production of a high quality software product requires application of both defect prevention and defect detection techniques. A common defect detection strategy is to subject the product to several phases of testing such as unit, integration, and system. These testing phases consume significant project resources and cycle time. As software companies continue to search for ways for reducing ...

See, it obviously works! The biggest problem with testing is actually not that bugs may remain in well-tested code—although of course they may. The biggest problem is that reaching acceptable quality by testing is so inordinately expensive! Testing typically accounts for around half the cost of a software project—so finding ways to reduce its cost, without compromising the quality of the result...

The aim is to compare different testing techniques and what efforts it takes to find genuine failures on particular level of test. These levels are e.g. unit/component level, i.e. code/designer level testing, as well as on other test levels, such as integrated and system test level. Test cases are often complementary to each other, and explore different aspects of the program being tested. Writ...