Report on the NBS Software Acceptance Test Workshop April 1-2. 1986 | NIST

This document is a report on the Software Acceptance Test Workshop held at the National Bureau of Standards, April 1-2, 1986. The workshop consisted of eight sessions divided over two days. The topics of the first day's sessions were acceptance testing of off-the-shelf software, test case selection techniques, automated support for software acceptance testing, and software acceptance criteria. The topics of the second day's sessions were the management of software acceptance testing, standardization issues in software acceptance testing, research areas for software acceptance testing, and the state of practice in software acceptance testing. This report describes the charges given to all of the sessions, highlights of discussions from each of the sessions, and the conclusions of the workshop. This report is intended for those who purchase, market, develop or maintain software and for those who are responsible for software acceptance testing.