AN EMPIRICAL FRAMEWORK FOR CHOOSING AN EFFECTIVE TESTING TECHNIQUE FOR SOFTWARE TEST PROCESS MANAGEMENT

The choice of a software testing technique can have severe implications on the quality and efficiency of a testing project. One of the fundamental steps in managing a testing project should be selecting an effective testing technique. This paper discusses a methodology that can be used for experimentally assessing the effectiveness of two or more testing techniques in practice. The work should help quality managers and related researchers to learn how two or more testing techniques can be compared experimentally when one needs to choose an effective testing technique for a project. The primary motivation behind this paper is to advocate selecting an effective testing technique in practice in testing projects and providing a framework that can be readily adopted in practical testing projects. The testing techniques used to demonstrate the above are trivial in practice, and we did not intend to report the results of their comparisons here.