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Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference - Practice And Research Techniques (TAIC PART'06)
On the Testing Maturity of Software Producing Organizations
Windsor, United Kingdom
August 29-August 31
ISBN: 0-7695-2672-1
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Mats Grindal, Jeff Offutt, Jonas Mellin, "On the Testing Maturity of Software Producing Organizations," Practice And Research Techniques, Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference on, pp. 171-180, Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference - Practice And Research Techniques (TAIC PART'06), 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TAIC-PART.2006.20,
author = {Mats Grindal and Jeff Offutt and Jonas Mellin},
title = {On the Testing Maturity of Software Producing Organizations},
journal ={Practice And Research Techniques, Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference on},
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doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TAIC-PART.2006.20},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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Mats Grindal, University of Sk?ovde, Sweden
Jeff Offutt, George Mason University, USA
Jonas Mellin, University of Sk?ovde, Sweden
This paper presents data from a study of the current state of practice of software testing. Test managers from twelve different software organizations were interviewed. The interviews focused on the amount of resources spent on testing, how the testing is conducted, and the knowledge of the personnel in the test organizations.

The data indicate that the overall test maturity is low. Test managers are aware of this but have trouble improving. One problem is that the organizations are commercially successful, suggesting that products must already be "good enough." Also, the current lack of structured testing in practice makes it difficult to quantify the current level of maturity and thereby articulate the potential gain from increasing testing maturity to upper management and developers.

Citation:
Mats Grindal, Jeff Offutt, Jonas Mellin, "On the Testing Maturity of Software Producing Organizations," taic-part, pp.171-180, Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference - Practice And Research Techniques (TAIC PART'06), 2006
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