Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping

03/08/2020
by   Vahid Garousi, et al.
0

Context: With the rising complexity and scale of software systems, there is an ever-increasing demand for sophisticated and cost-effective software testing. To meet such a demand, there is a need for a highly-skilled software testing work-force (test engineers) in the industry. To address that need, many university educators worldwide have included software-testing education in their software engineering (SE) or computer science (CS) programs. Objective: Our objective in this paper is to summarize the body of experience and knowledge in the area of software-testing education to benefit the readers (both educators and researchers) in designing and delivering software testing courses in university settings, and to also conduct further education research in this area. Method: To address the above need, we conducted a systematic literature mapping (SLM) to synthesize what the community of educators have published on this topic. After compiling a candidate pool of 307 papers, and applying a set of inclusion/exclusion criteria, our final pool included 204 papers published between 1992 and 2019. Results: The topic of software-testing education is becoming more active, as we can see by the increasing number of papers. Many pedagogical approaches (how to best teach testing), course-ware, and specific tools for testing education have been proposed. Many challenges in testing education and insights on how to overcome those challenges have been proposed. Conclusion: This paper provides educators and researchers with a classification of existing studies within software-testing education. We further synthesize challenges and insights reported when teaching software testing. The paper also provides a reference ("index") to the vast body of knowledge and experience on teaching software testing.

READ FULL TEXT

page 33

page 36

research
06/02/2018

NLP-assisted software testing: a systematic review

Context: To reduce manual effort of extracting test cases from natural-l...
research
10/05/2018

Compiler Testing: A Systematic Literature Analysis

Compilers are widely-used infrastructures in accelerating the software d...
research
01/07/2018

What we know about software testability: a survey

Software testability is the degree to which a software system or a unit ...
research
11/26/2019

What Are Cybersecurity Education Papers About? A Systematic Literature Review of SIGCSE and ITiCSE Conferences

Cybersecurity is now more important than ever, and so is education in th...
research
03/01/2021

The Rise of a New Digital Third Space Professional in Higher Education: Recognising Research Software Engineering

Research Software Engineering is the application of professional softwar...
research
09/24/2019

A Systematic Literature Review of Test Breakage Prevention and Repair Techniques

Context: When an application evolves, some of the developed test cases b...
research
10/11/2019

Modeling pages left blank in university examination: A resolution in higher education process

Trees are the main sources of paper production, in most of the cases, as...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset