By practicing conventional techniques, students may produce higher-quality work. However, the beneficial outcomes of practicing software development processes should not end at improved schoolwork. Instead, students should also gain confidence and competence in applying these methods in a practical setting. Accordingly, ABET accreditation requires evidence that students acquire “An ability to u...

The process of testing any software system is an enormous task which is time consuming and costly. The time and required effort to do sufficient testing grow, as the size and complexity of the software grows, which may cause overrun of the project budget, delay in the development of software system or some test cases may not be covered. During SDLC (software development life cycle), generally t...

Researchers do not effectively manage and verify artifacts produced during software R&D projects. And testing software development artifacts cannot test the whole software R&D project. It is necessary to perform continuous and detailed verification of artifacts produced in each phase during software R&D project. Thus, a framework is required to test software and verify documents generated durin...

We describe an informal methodology for developing on-line applications, which is, to some extent, complementary to the Web 2.0 aspects of web development. The presented methodology is suitable for developing low-cost and non-cost web sites targeted at medium-sized communities. We present basic building blocks used in the described strategy. To achieve a better understanding of the discussed co...

Learning contemporary software development practices and acquiring good programming habits are valuable skills in computer science education. However, there are challenges in encouraging students' adherence to the incremental testing pattern involved in Test-Driven Development. We propose a model for an adaptive feedback system to observe and encourage incremental testing. Using data analysis o...

Many studies have pinpointed the significance of collaboration with other firms in product development. By taking the starting point in a case study of a bearing manufacturer and its R&D activities, this paper focuses on the particular situation of involving customers. With basis in the Industrial Network Approach, we suggest five dimensions of importance to analyse customer involvement in the ...

The scientific method serves as a good metaphor for several practices in Extreme Programming (XP). We explore the commonalities and differences and show that the scientific method, by analogy, can be used to better understand Test Driven Development (and vice versa).

As, we know that Software testing is a very vast field in Software development life cycle. In this paper, we describe that how automated testing tools are very much convenient and easy to use which also makes testing faster and more effective in less time. Actually the world of technology revolves at fast pace today and among all Testing tools only automated testing tools makes Software testing...

As Corporate Director of IBM Software Test and Development Excellence, Bill Woodworth has a three fold responsibility: 1) increase the IBM-wide focus on testing of all software products and solutions, 2) based upon the success achieved in #1 for testers, do the same for all IBM software developers, and 3) drive the continuing focus on improving the reliability/ availability of our integrated cu...

A Pedagogical Approach to Introducing Test-Driven Development