Myths and Facts about a Career in Software Testing: A Comparison between Students' Beliefs and Professionals' Experience

Testing is an indispensable part of software development. However, a career in software testing is reported to be unpopular among students in computer science and related areas. This can potentially create a shortage of testers in the software industry in the future. The question is, whether the perception that undergraduate students have about software testing is accurate and whether it differs from the experience reported by those who work in testing activities in the software development industry. This investigation demonstrates that a career in software testing is more exciting and rewarding, as reported by professionals working in the field, than students may believe. Therefore, in order to guarantee a workforce focused on software quality, the academy and the software industry need to work together to better inform students about software testing and its essential role in software development.Comment: IEEE Software, Volume 40, Issue 5, pp. 76-84, September/October 202

A Literature Review of Software Test Cases and Future Research

Nowadays, software testing is becoming more critical to ensure that software will function properly in a dynamic environment. Consequently, different types of resources such as effort, time, and fund invested on software testing activities increase significantly. As such, managers have to allocate limited resources in software development to those critical test cases rather than the exhaustive set of test cases. In this paper, we describe the results of a literature search that explores the importance and value of software test cases as a preliminary to conducting further research on this topic