Experimental design and analysis in software engineering, part 5: analyzing the data
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Building Knowledge through Families of Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
How the Learning Curve Affects CASE Tool Adoption
IEEE Software
Case Studies for Method and Tool Evaluation
IEEE Software
The Experience Factory and its Relationship to Other Improvement Paradigms
ESEC '93 Proceedings of the 4th European Software Engineering Conference on Software Engineering
Test Management Automation: Lessons Learned from a Process Improvement Experiment (Short Paper)
EWSPT '00 Proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on Software Process Technology
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Test management aims at organizing, documenting and executing test cases, and at generating execution reports. The adoption of a support tool and of a standard process for such activities is expected to improve the current practice. ITALO is a European project devoted to the evaluation of the benefits coming from test management automation. In this paper the experiences collected and the lessons learned during ITALO are summarized. A formal methodology was adopted for the selection of a support tool among those available from the market. A survey of the current practice in component testing was conducted to adapt the existing process model so as to obtain the greatest benefits from automation. An empirical study was then designed to measure the effects that are expected to be produced by the new test process complemented with the introduction of the support tool. Three pilot projects were conducted to measure the benefits obtained from tool usage and process modification. Results are presented and discussed in this paper.