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Unit Testing Case Study

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CS4157 - Software Quality
Assignment 5

Introduction

For this case study we chose to focus on the software testing practices of Findings Ltd. They are a small company who produce a software for use in business functions. The company consists of sixteen staff . The software development team, consisting of four members, is based in Ireland. The UK office is a sales office. This is due to the fact that there is a larger customer base in the UK.

Findings Ltd. is partnered with Convert Software, a US based company. This agreement allows them to modify and install their software for clients.The software starts out with a generic version. This is changed based on either the needs of the clients or localisation needs. If major changes are made to …show more content…

They apparently do not have enough time to undertake unit tests. This is causing many problems in the development process due to the need to fix the many minor bugs that go unnoticed until later stages of the process. Despite unit testing usually being a minor part of the development progress, it can prove to be incredibly important. According to Robert Rice of Keyhole Software, “unit tests provide concrete expressions of business requirements”. This means that each individual unit test can be used to verify and showcase that specific functional requirements have been satisfied. Findings Ltd. should start to prioritise unit testing as it will help them satisfy the requirements. Considering a large portion of the customer base require significant modifications to the software specific to their needs, using unit tests to satisfy requirements could prove very useful. Aspects of the software should not be considered “done” until they are fully developed and tested. This testing should include unit …show more content…

One of the developers implemented his own bug tracking system. This system was not standardised and seemed to be used sporadically. The system itself was very poor. Bugs are an inevitable part of the development process, and therefore should have a proper system in place in order to deal with them correctly, as with any other aspect of the development process. According to an article released by the DRK College of Engineering & Technology, a bug tracking system “facilitates fixing of bugs faster and ensures the quality of software being developed or being used”. The quality of product is of high importance for Findings Ltd. and they should therefore take bug tracking seriously. For automated tests, often software can be used which keeps track of bugs automatically. Software such as Maven can be used for this purpose. For manual tests, software such as Bugzilla can be useful for keeping track of bugs. Bugzilla allows users to maintain bug lists and notify users when bugs are added or removed, thus helping with the communication problems mentioned earlier. It also contains predefined fields for use when entering bugs. A system similar to this could help with creating and maintaining a standard for bug

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