The growth of software testing
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Communications of the ACM
A survey of user-centered design practice
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Agile Software Development with Scrum
Agile Software Development with Scrum
A Preliminary Survey on Software Testing Practices in Australia
ASWEC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Australian Software Engineering Conference
Automatic Test Generation: A Use Case Driven Approach
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A state-of-practice questionnaire on verification and validation for concurrent programs
Proceedings of the 2006 workshop on Parallel and distributed systems: testing and debugging
Test driven: practical tdd and acceptance tdd for java developers
Test driven: practical tdd and acceptance tdd for java developers
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Empirical Software Engineering
Test confessions: a study of testing practices for plug-in systems
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
A survey of software testing practices in Canada
Journal of Systems and Software
Evaluating usage and quality of technical software documentation: an empirical study
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Recovering test-to-code traceability using slicing and textual analysis
Journal of Systems and Software
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Software organizations have typically de-emphasized the importance of software testing. In an earlier study in 2004, our colleagues reported the results of an Alberta-wide regional survey of software testing techniques in practice. Five years after that first study, the authors felt it is time to replicate the survey and analyze what has changed and what not from 2004 to 2009. This study was conducted during the summer of 2009 by surveying software organizations in the Canadian province of Alberta. The survey results reveal important and interesting findings about software testing practices in Alberta, and point out what has changed from 2004 to 2009 and what not. Note that although our study is conducted in the province of Alberta, we have compared the results to few international similar studies, such as the ones conducted in the US, Turkey, Hong Kong and Australia, The study should thus be of interest to all testing professionals world-wide. Among the findings are the followings: (1) almost all companies perform unit and system testing with a slight increase since 2004, (2) automation of unit, integration and systems tests has increased sharply since 2004, (3) more organization are using observations and expert opinion to conduct usability testing, (4) the choices of test-case generation mechanisms have not changed much from 2004, (5) JUnit and IBM Rational tools are the most widely used test tools, (6) Alberta companies still face approximately the same defect-related economic issues as do companies in other jurisdictions, (7) Alberta software firms have improved their test automation capability since 2004, but there is still some room for improvement, and (8) compared to 2004, more companies are spending more effort on pre-release testing.