Empirical studies of software testing techniques: challenges, practical strategies, and future research

Authors:
Lionel Briand;Yvan Labiche
Affiliations:
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada;Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Venue:
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Year:
2004

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Abstract

This position paper aims at discussing a number of issues that typically arise when performing empirical studies with software testing techniques. Though some problems are general to all empirical disciplines, software testing studies face a number of specific challenges. Some of the main ones are discussed in sequence below.