Title
A Survey of Field-based Testing Techniques
Abstract
AbstractField testing refers to testing techniques that operate in the field to reveal those faults that escape in-house testing. Field testing techniques are becoming increasingly popular with the growing complexity of contemporary software systems. In this article, we present the first systematic survey of field testing approaches over a body of 80 collected studies, and propose their categorization based on the environment and the system on which field testing is performed. We discuss four research questions addressing how software is tested in the field, what is tested in the field, which are the requirements, and how field tests are managed, and identify many challenging research directions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3447240
ACM Computing Surveys
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Software testing, field testing, in-vivo testing, ex-vivo testing
Journal
54
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0360-0300
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonia Bertolino11961140.25
P. Braione21228.08
AngelisGuglielmo De300.34
GazzolaLuca400.34
KifetewFitsum500.34
Leonardo Mariani623324.60
Matteo Orrù792.15
PezzèMauro800.34
Roberto Pietrantuono935730.48
Stefano Russo1072878.07
Paolo Tonella113559224.88