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The Unpopularity Of The Software Tester Role Among Software Practitioners: A Case Study, Yadira Lizama, Daniel Varona, Pradeep Waychal, Luiz Fernando Capretz

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

As software systems are becoming more pervasive, they are also becoming more susceptible to failures, resulting in potentially lethal combinations. Software testing is critical to preventing software failures but is, arguably, the least understood part of the software life cycle and the toughest to perform correctly. Adequate research has been carried out in both the process and technology dimensions of testing, but not in the human dimensions. This work attempts to fill in the gap by exploring the human dimension, i.e., trying to understand the motivation/de-motivation of software practitioners to take up and sustain testing careers. One hundred and forty …