Identifying Relevant Information for Testing Technique Selection

1. Introduction.- 1 Basics on Software Testing.- 2 The Problem of Selecting Testing Techniques.- 3 Getting a Characterisation Schema for Testing Techniques.- 4 Organisation of the Book.- 2. State of the Practice.- 1 Areas Surveyed.- 2 Testing Area.- 3 Area of Characterisation.- 4 Conclusions on the State of the Practice.- 3. Research Goals.- 1 Description of the Problem.- 2 Problem-Solving Approach.- 3 Hypotheses.- 4. Problem Solving Process.- 1 Research Methods.- 2 Objectives of Technological Research.- 3 Applying the Scientific Method to Technological Research.- 4 Expert Peer Review versus Experimental Testing.- 5 The Problem-Solving Process Used in this Book.- 5. First Generative Iteration: Deductive Theoretical Schema.- 1 Description of the Research Stage: Generation of a Theoretical Schema.- 2 Testing Process.- 3 Stratification of Testing-Related Information.- 4 Testing Process Elements.- 5 Attributes of the Theoretical Schema.- 6 Result of the Construction of the Theoretical Schema.- 7 Use and Evolution of the Characterisation Schema.- 6. Second Generative Iteration: Inductive Empirical Schema.- 1 Description of the Research Stage: Generation of an Empirical Schema.- 2 Data Collection.- 3 Data Analysis.- 4 Result of Building the Empirical Schema.- 5 Study of the Evolution of the Empirical Schema.- 7. Synthesis of Perspectives: Proposal of the Preliminary Schema.- 1 Description of the Research Stage: Synthesis of Schemas.- 2 Rules of Synthesis.- 3 Synthesis of the Theoretical and Empirical Schemas.- 4 Result of Schema Synthesis.- 5 Study of Schema Synthesis.- 8. Improvement of the Schema: Expert Peer Review.- 1 Description of the Research Stage: Improvement.- 2 Questionnaire for Experts.- 3 Questionnaire Analysis Method.- 4 Analysis of Responses.- 5 Improved Schema.- 9. Empirical Evaluation.- 1 Objective of the Empirical Evaluation.- 2 Choice of the Workload.- 3 Analysis of the Results.- 4 Conclusions on the Empirical Evaluation.- 10. Experimental Evaluation.- 1 Objective of the Experiment.- 2 Experiment Planning.- 3 Experimental Design.- 4 Data Analysis.- 5 Conclusions on Experimental Evaluation.- 6 Characterisation Schema Improvement.- 11. Conclusions.- Appendices.- Forms Used to Obtain the Empirical Schema.- Questionnaires Used in Expert Peer Review.- Schema Instantiation.- Experiment Forms.