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Testing deliverables Test case specification report, test summary
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report, test log etc.
4 CONCLUSIONS
Many surveys on software testing and reuse have been carried out and it has been seen that
reuse is not attempted in testing phase as in other phases of software development. Although
some tools and test design patterns are being used in the field of software testing, but are not
enough to say that reuse is being successfully applied in testing phase. In this paper, we have
shown that there are various possibilities of reuse in testing process. Even, all the activities,
carried out during software testing, have large potential for reuse. Although the whole testing
process cannot be automated, testers can be aided through test design patterns, templates and
test environments. We have highlighted the artifacts that can be reused during testing phase.
These testing artifacts should be stored in reuse repository for access to testers. We have also
explained the categorization scheme for different reusable test artifacts. This classification will
help testers to locate and reuse these artifacts easily.
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Authors Biography
Miss Manjari Gupta: Ph.D. Research Scholar (and Teaching Assistant for Computer Sc at BHU),
Dept. of Comp. Engg., IT-BHU, has done M.Sc. (Computer Science) from J.K. Institute of Applied
Physics & Technology, Allahabad University. Her research area is Software Reuse. She is
exploring the possibilities of reuse in software development processes to improve the quality of
the development process and thus of the products/artifacts developed. Her work includes
identifying frameworks and design patterns in testing field apart from object-oriented software
development.
Meeta Prakash: obtained her Master degree and PhD in Computer Engineering and the
dissertations at both the levels dealt with Software Testability. She has to her credit one
publication in the International Journal of Information and Computing Science and one in
Computer Society. She joined the Hexaware Software, Bangalore after Obtaining the PhD degree
from Computer Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi.
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