Resumen de Evaluating Software Testing Techniques and Tools

Tanja E.J. Vos , Beatriz Marín, José Ignacio Panach Navarrete , Arthur I. Baars, Claudia Ayala, Xavier Franch

• Case studies can help companies to evaluate the benefits of testing techniques and tools before their possible incorporation into the testing processes. Although general guidelines and organizational frameworks exist describing what a case study should consist of, no general methodological framework exists that can be instantiated to easily de- sign case studies to evaluate different testing techniques. In this paper we define a first version of a general methodological framework for evaluating software testing techniques, that focusses on the evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency. Using this framework, (1) software testing practitioners can more easily define case studies through an instantiation of the framework, (2) results can be better compared since they are all executed according to a similar design, and (3) the gap in existing work on methodological evaluation frameworks will be narrowed.