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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

TestDCat: Catalog of Test Debt Subtypes and Management Activities

Authors : Bruno S. Aragão, Rossana M. C. Andrade, Ismayle S. Santos, Rute N. S. Castro, Valéria Lelli, Ticianne G. R. Darin

Published in: Testing Software and Systems

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Abstract

When deadlines and resources of software projects become scarce, testing is usually in the first row to have its activities aborted or reduced. If defects cannot be found, products quality can be affected. In a software development process, aborted or reduced activities that can bring short-term benefits, but can be harmful to the project in a long run, are considered Technical Debt (TD). When TDs impact testing activities, they are called Test Debt. There are several studies dealing with Test Debt, however, current solutions often deal with specific types of tests (e.g., exploratory and automated tests) and do not address the whole software testing process. Aiming to fill these gaps, this paper proposes a Test Debt Catalog with subtypes of Test Debts and technical debt management activities. This catalog was built based on semi-structured interviews conducted with practitioners who perform testing activities in five projects from industry. With our catalog, we intend to help the management of test debts during the execution of software testing processes.

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Group of Computer Networks, Software Engineering, and Systems. The GREat Research Group works on research and development software projects, developing web and mobile tools that are constantly being tested by the GREat Test Factory team.
 
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Immature artifact means any artifact that is not fully developed.
 
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The interview script is available on: https://​bit.​ly/​2JPy1CD.
 
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Metadata
Title
TestDCat: Catalog of Test Debt Subtypes and Management Activities
Authors
Bruno S. Aragão
Rossana M. C. Andrade
Ismayle S. Santos
Rute N. S. Castro
Valéria Lelli
Ticianne G. R. Darin
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Testing Software and Systems

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-31279-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-31280-0

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31280-0_18

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