History of Testing
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Printed Date: 06Jul2024 at 3:35am
Topic: History of Testing
Posted By: jack45
Subject: History of Testing
Date Posted: 02Apr2007 at 3:55am
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The separation of debugging from testing was initially introduced by
Glenford J. Myers in his 1987 book the "Art of Software
Testing". Although his attention was on breakage testing it illustrated
the desire of the software engineering community to
separate fundamental development activities, such as debugging, from
that of verification. Drs. Dave Gelperin and William C.
Hetzel classified in 1988 the phases and goals in software testing as
follows: until 1956 it was the debugging oriented period,
where testing was often associated to debugging: there was no clear
difference between testing and debugging. From 1957-1978
there was the demonstration oriented period where debugging and testing
was distinguished now - in this period it was shown, that
software satisfies the requirements. The time between 1979-1982 is
announced as the destruction oriented period, where the goal
was to find errors. 1983-1987 is classified as the evaluation oriented
period: intention here is that during the software
lifecycle a product evaluation is provided and measuring quality. From
1988 on it was seen as prevention oriented period where
tests were to demonstrate that software satisfies its specification, to
detect faults and to prevent faults. Dr. Gelperin chaired
the IEEE 829-1988 (Test Documentation Standard) with Dr. Hetzel writing
the book "The Complete Guide of Software Testing". Both
works were pivotal in to today's testing culture and remain a
consistent source of reference. Dr. Gelperin and Jerry E. Durant
also went on to develop High Impact Inspection Technology that builds
upon traditional Inspections but utilizes a test driven
additive.
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