EMPIRICAL STUDY OF LATEST SOFTWARE TESTING TECHNIQUES AND TEST METRICS

Abstract

With the increasing complexity of today’s software applications, software testing tools, techniques and methodologies are also getting intricate. Few decades ago, there used to be window based applications and later when internet age came in early 90s, most of the applications moved to web. Web based applications have also taken shape of mobile applications, which are hosted majorly on cloud. Now a days computing devices are embedded in all objects which can communicate with each other over internet, popularly called as IOT (Internet of Things). Paper currency has also taken shape of digital currency and these days crypto currencies are in inception phase. Now a days ensuring software interoperability and error free transactions have become a challenge. In this paper, we provide an accounting of some of the effective work accomplished in software testing in past and most important issues and challenges in this field. To be further comprehensive in this determination, and to go outside our own individual views and prejudices, we started by communicating with many of our associates who are lively in the software testing field. We queried them for assistance and to understand latest trends in software testing. The research is conducted to understand issues and challenges faced by current industry and opportunities for future research in this field.
Key Words: Algorithms, Experimentation, Verification, Testing Methodologies, Software Testing Life Cycle, Testing Frameworks, Automation Testing, Test Driven Development, Test optimization, Quality Metrics.