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Cooperative work in software testing

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David Martin,

John Rooksby,

Mark Rouncefield,

Ian SommervilleAuthors Info & Claims

CHASE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering

Pages 93 - 96

https://doi.org/10.1145/1370114.1370138

Published: 13 May 2008 Publication History

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Substantial effort in the development of any large system is invested in testing. Studies of testing tend to be either technical or concerned with the cognitive ability of testers. Our experience is that testing is not technical but socio-technical, involving a great deal of human and organisational effort, and that testing is not simply the kind of decontextualised 'puzzle solving' many cognitive approaches imply. We believe that cooperative work is foundational to getting testing done. In this position paper, we use data from four ethnographic studies to discuss just what that cooperative work is.

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Sharrock, W., Anderson, B. 1993. Working Towards Agreement. In Technology in Working Order, G. Button, Ed., Routledge, London. 149--161.

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Cooperative work in software testing
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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CHASE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering

May 2008

120 pages

ISBN:9781605580395

DOI:10.1145/1370114

Conference Chairs:
Li-Te Cheng
IBM, USA
,
Cleidson de Souza
UFPA, Brazil
,
Yvonne Dittrich
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
,
Michael John
Fraunhofer, Germany
,
Orit Hazzan
Technion, Israel
,
Frank Maurer
University of Calgary, Canada
,
Helen Sharp
Open University, UK
,
Janice Singer
NRC, Canada
,
Susan Elliot Sim
University of CA, Irvine, USA,
,
Jonathan Sillito
University of Calgary, Canada
,
Margaret-Anne Storey
University of Victoria, Canada
,
Bjørnar Tessem
University of Bergen, Norway
,
Gina Venolia
Microsoft Research, USA

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