@Article{SouzaVijaFalb:2015:MaSt,
author = "Souza, {\'E}rica Ferreira de and Vijaykumar, Nandamudi
Lankalapalli and Falbo, Ricardo de Almeida",
affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Universidade Federal
do Esp{\'{\i}}rito Santo (UFES)}",
title = "Knowledge Management Initiatives in Software Testing: a Mapping
Study",
journal = "Information and Software Technology",
year = "2015",
volume = "57",
number = "Jan",
pages = "378--391",
keywords = "Software Testing, Knowledge Management, Mapping Study.",
abstract = "Context: Software testing is a knowledge intensive process, and,
thus, Knowledge Management (KM) principles and techniques should
be applied to manage software testing knowledge. Objective: This
study conducts a survey on existing research on KM initiatives in
software testing, in order to identify the state of the art in the
area as well as the future research. Aspects such as purposes,
types of knowledge, technologies and research type are
investigated. Method: The mapping study was performed by searching
seven electronic databases. We considered studies published until
December 2013. The initial resulting set was comprised of 562
studies. From this set, a total of 13 studies were selected. For
these 13, we performed snowballing and direct search to
publications of researchers and research groups that accomplished
these studies. Results: From the mapping study, we identified 15
studies addressing KM initiatives in software testing that have
been reviewed in order to extract relevant information on a set of
research questions. Conclusions: Although only a few studies were
found that addressed KM initiatives in software testing, the
mapping shows an increasing interest in the topic in the recent
years. Reuse of test cases is the perspective that has received
more attention. From the KM point of view, most of the studies
discuss aspects related to providing automated support for
managing testing knowledge by means of a KM system. More- over, as
a main conclusion, the results show that KM is pointed out as an
important strategy for increasing test effectiveness, as well as
for improving the selection and application of suited techniques,
methods and test cases. On the other hand, inadequacy of existing
KM systems appears as the most cited problem related to applying
KM in software testing.",
doi = "10.1016/j.infsof.2014.05.016",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2014.05.016",
issn = "0950-5849",
label = "lattes: 9922863822347014 2 SouzaVijaFalb:2014:MaSt",
language = "en",
targetfile = "JIST_Knowledge_Management_in_Software_Testing_
a_systematic_mapping_study.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "28 abr. 2024"
}