Software Testing Standards: Annotated Bibliography and Case Study

This report presents a case study on standard software testing, incorporating an annotated bibliography and an abstract. The bibliography examines three key articles: Moore (2006) on the roadmap of software engineering, Takahashi (2008) on antivirus software testing standards, and a 2014 article on keyword-driven testing. The case study analyzes these articles, focusing on software engineering principles, testing methodologies, and the application of standards like those from IEEE and ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119. The abstract summarizes the core arguments of each article, highlighting the importance of software testing in ensuring successful software project implementation, and the role of standards in the development, building, and testing of software. The report underscores the significance of standard software testing across the software development lifecycle, from initial requirements analysis to the final implementation, emphasizing the critical role it plays in project success.

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Part A: Annotated Bibliography
Reference 1: Moore (2006)
This particular article discusses on constructing a roadmap for the software engineering.
The author argued on the challenges and gaps raised in software engineering. This paper
provides with IEEE software and system standards. The author researched on the fundamental
principles of the software engineering with a need to describe curriculum of the disciplines.
Moore (2006) stressed that a corpus of the software engineering standards comprises a
formalization of the best practices. It results into lack of integration as well as coherence. There
is also some sort of overlapping. The evidence is evolution of the software engineering standards
and tools. In order to mitigate the gaps, the standard organizations require better take hold of the
basics of the discipline of the software engineering. Moore (2006) noted that disciplines of the
software engineering established a connection between the engineering principles and also
standards that limit the standards. This particular IEEE paper provides the vision of the future
challenges in area of software engineering. In the other articles, from the literature review it is
revealed that most of the author used the terms-principles, techniques, standards in inexact way.
This current paper is better as compared to other articles as in other articles, there is nonexistence
of accurate definition of the terms used and lack of information into software engineering
standards is a basis of uncertainty for the researchers.

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Reference 2: Takahashi (2008)
The author argued on that the coalition means to form of testing standards in favor of the
anti-virus software. This paper figures out the varieties of malware that every of the software
packages can capable to block. The author knew the features of the anti-virus software so as to
discontinue the e-mail phishing, elimination of viruses, updation of the malware and protection
of the passwords. This evidence is supported by creation of software standards to evaluate the
anti-virus software. Takahashi (2008) proved the evidence is supported by conducting a crash
test dummy into the car industry. In order to do testing, a computer is scanned to examine
whether the anti-virus software will accept the bugs on the machine. Anti-virus software is used
to examine the signature of recognized threats and mitigate them. The software does heuristic
analysis and assessment to identify whether the program has innovative functions. The software
can utilize of intrusion detection method to analyze the network traffic (Takahashi, 2008). It
stops the bad means of the firewall which divides the computer and also the group from the
internet. When this article is compared to other, then it is seen that this particular article cannot
provide recommendations on use of other testing tool which is better for eliminating the viruses.

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Reference 3: Key word driven testing (2014)
In this article, the author argued on keyword driven testing which is a software testing
methodology which is perfect to do manual as well as the automated testing. This methodology
divides certification of the test cases. The test creation development has two stages- design as
well as progress stage as well as implementation stage. The evidence provided for testing is some
standards set to structure keywords as well as attributes. The author convinced with the evidence
as software testing standards are provided ISO/ICE/IEE 29119 models for testing specifications.
The keyword driven testing permits automation to start earlier into SDLC even before a stable
build is being delivered for the purpose of testing (Key word driven testing, 2014). The idea
behind the evidence of keyword drive approach is to divide coding from test case as well as test
step. Therefore, the non-technical person can able to understand the automation process. Various
types of software tools are designed for testing. This proposed methodology is used to select
keywords as well as attributes. This standard is appropriate for the programmers in addition to
testers to generate applications for key word driven test. The author’s argument is regarded to
other articles which build to create keywords and identify the test cases. With the keyword
selection software, set of attributes and keywords are being selected.

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Part B: Abstract
The first article is based on road map for the software testing in which the author
discussed on the software engineering principles with requirements to explain curriculum of the
disciplines. Software testing is based on three steps such as analyze the requirements,
determination of feasibility and begin with the test automation. In the second article, it evaluated
on coalition aims to generate of testing standards for the anti-virus software. Software testing is
done to examine the computer to observe if the anti-virus software will recognize the viruses in
the computer. Antivirus software is used to detect as well as eliminate of computer viruses. The
newspaper article provides the testing methods and processes for the software to protect them
from virus, spyware and malware attacks. The article reviews on crash test dummy into the car
business to provide evidence on the testing principles for the anti-virus software. The software
conducted heuristic analysis in addition to do evaluation for identifying whether the program has
inventive purposes. It is used as intrusion detection method to investigate the network traffic. In
the third article, keyword driven testing is analyzed by the author for separating documentation
of the test cases. It evaluates on the methods for software testing based on various viewpoints of
testing. The testing is done for selecting keywords need for the organization. These three articles
provides standards for the software testing so that the software develop can design, build and test
the software for successful implementation of a software project. Standard software testing plays
a vital role into software projects.

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References
IEEE Reference paper (april 28, 2014) - “key word driven testing”.
Moore, J.W., 2006. The road map to software engineering. Wiley-Interscience.
Takahashi, D. (2008). Takahashi: Coalition aims to create testing standards for anti-virus
software – The Mercury News.