✦ LIBER ✦

TIM—a test improvement model

✍ Scribed by Thomas Ericson; Anders Subotic; Stig Ursing

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 89 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 0960-0833
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1689(199712)7:4<229::aid-stvr149>3.0.co;2-m

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The software testing state of practice is not as good as it ought to be. To reduce the gap between the state of practice and the state of the art, improvement in software testing is necessary. Existing improvement models focus too little on, or lack important aspects of, software testing. Therefore a new model is required. This paper describes a test improvement model called TIM. The model functions as a guidebook for test improvement. It is mainly inspired by SEI's Capability Maturity Model and Gelperin's Testability Maturity Model. TIM introduces new perspectives to test improvement, with explicit focus on cost-effectiveness and risk management. The model addresses five 'key areas' of testing: organization, planning and tracking, test cases, testware and reviews. TIM also includes an assessment procedure. The model is continuously revised as knowledge is gained through research and experience of use. This paper presents results from three applications of TIM.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

A process improvement choice model

✍ W. M. V. Chang; T. C. E. Cheng 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 366 KB 👁 2 views

Process improvement has been extolled as an effective means for enhancing the quality of an organization. This paper proposes a simple decision aid, the Process Improvement Choice Model (PICM), to assist the decision maker in the choice of an appropriate approach to process improvement. Three popula

An improved test process model for cost

An improved test process model for cost reduction

✍ Suresh Goyal; James H. Mosher Jr. 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 🌐 English ⚖ 406 KB 👁 1 views

A Markovian model for process setup and

A Markovian model for process setup and improvement

✍ Linguo Gong; James Pruett; Kwei Tang 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 160 KB 👁 2 views

Improvement of a Model for Crystal Habit

Improvement of a Model for Crystal Habit Prediction

✍ P. Schmiech; J. Ulrich 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 159 KB

A dynamic model for component testing

✍ I. Kuban Altinel; Süleyman Özekici 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 75 KB 👁 2 views

We consider the component testing problem of a system where the main feature is that the component failure rates are not constant parameters, but they change in a dynamic fashion with respect to time. More precisely, each component has a piecewise-constant failure-rate function such that the lifetim

Model of accelerated vibration test

✍ Changfeng Ge 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 389 KB 👁 2 views

This paper indicates that the mean time to failure (MTTF) is an important performance indicator of vibration fragility in addition to the natural frequency. After systematically introducing the accelerated vibration test method for fruit transportation, a Weibull theory-based MTTF curve is introduce