The practice of unit testing by five software development companies in Malaysia
Software testing is regarded as the most important and the most crucial of the final stages in software development. Profound knowledge and experience in software testing is often an asset in a software company to ensure the reliability and quality of any developed project. The core of software t...
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| Language: | English English |
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2002
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8693/1/FSKTM_2002_10%20IR.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8693/ |
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| Summary: | Software testing is regarded as the most important and the most crucial of the final
stages in software development. Profound knowledge and experience in software testing
is often an asset in a software company to ensure the reliability and quality of any
developed project. The core of software testing strategies mainly lies with unit testing,
which is a type of testing carried out on single subroutine or module, almost throughout
the development process, depending on the development model used by the developer.
There are some issues raised in software testing literature, be it in textbooks, journals, or
articles, regarding the process of unit testing, its importance, and the problems faced by
developers in performing unit tests. However, through the research and readings of the
author on the literature, these issues have not been formally discussed in a Malaysian
perspective. Hence, this study of the unit testing practice of software development
companies operating in Malaysia is carried out. After reviewing the current available
literature on unit testing with no specific geographical or time frame limitation, a study is
carried out on five software development companies, within the geographical limit of
Malaysia and as of the current time, on their engaged practice of unit testing. It is meant
to gauge the importance they place in unit testing, as well as to find out their methods,
their processes, and the problems they encounter in unit testing. These findings are then
analyzed and compared to the current literature. It is hoped that these case studies will
shed more light on the real-world practice of software development, especially of unit
testing, in a Malaysian context. |
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