Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
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. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2008 | 10.1145/1370114.1370138 | CHASE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
great deal,ethnographic study,substantial effort,cognitive ability,cognitive approach,position paper,cooperative work,organisational effort,software testing,large system,testing,ethnography | Systems engineering,Computer science,Cooperative work,Position paper,Knowledge management,Exploratory testing,Cognition,Game testing,Test strategy,Software testing | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.38 | 1 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Martin | 1 | 118 | 8.63 |
| John Rooksby | 2 | 321 | 23.19 |
| Mark Rouncefield | 3 | 1631 | 144.08 |
| Ian Sommerville | 4 | 2 | 0.38 |