Integration of Autonomic Mechanisms to a Test Management Solution

Clauirton A. Siebra, Natasha Q. C. Lino

2014

Abstract

Testing is one of the most time-consuming phases of the software development cycle and this is not different in the mobile software domain. In fact, small input mechanisms, dependence to wireless network configurations and complex navigations create a very stressful and prone to errors test environment. This paper presents additional modules that were specified to a test management tool, which extend its abilities in terms of automation, intelligent control and statistical metrics manipulation. We compare this approach to other efforts from the software engineering community and stress the gains in our test process. A list of learned lessons was also consolidated to share important points of this experience.

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Siebra C. and Q. C. Lino N. (2014). Integration of Autonomic Mechanisms to a Test Management Solution . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-036-9, pages 269-276. DOI: 10.5220/0004989502690276


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@conference{icsoft-ea14,
author={Clauirton A. Siebra and Natasha Q. C. Lino},
title={Integration of Autonomic Mechanisms to a Test Management Solution},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={269-276},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004989502690276},
isbn={978-989-758-036-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)
TI - Integration of Autonomic Mechanisms to a Test Management Solution
SN - 978-989-758-036-9
AU - Siebra C.
AU - Q. C. Lino N.
PY - 2014
SP - 269
EP - 276
DO - 10.5220/0004989502690276