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ESEC/FSE 2021
Thu 19 - Sat 28 August 2021 Clowdr Platform
Fri 27 Aug 2021 16:20 - 16:30 - Human Aspects—Software Practices 1 Chair(s): Carlos Gavidia-Calderon
Sat 28 Aug 2021 04:20 - 04:30 - Human Aspects—Software Practices 1 Chair(s): Eirini Kalliamvakou

Manual software testing is tedious and costly as it involves significant human effort. Yet, it is still widely applied in industry and will be in the foreseeable future. Although there is arguably a great need for optimization of manual testing processes, research focuses mostly on optimization techniques for automated tests. Accordingly, there is no precise understanding of the practices and processes of manual testing in industry nor about pitfalls and optimization potential that is untapped. To shed light on this issue, we conducted a survey among 38 testing professionals from 16 companies, to investigate their manual testing processes and to identify potential for optimization. We synthesize guidelines when optimization techniques from automated testing can be implemented for manual testing. By means of case studies on two industrial software projects, we show that fault detection likelihood, test feedback time and test creation efforts can be improved when following our guidelines.

Fri 27 Aug

Displayed time zone: Athens change

16:00 - 17:00
Human Aspects—Software Practices 1Journal First / Research Papers / Industry Papers +12h
Chair(s): Carlos Gavidia-Calderon ThoughtWorks (UK) Ltd.
16:00
10m
Paper
XAI Tools in the Public Sector: A Case Study on Predicting Combined Sewer OverflowsArtifacts AvailableArtifacts Reusable
Research Papers
Nicholas Maltbie University of Cincinnati, Nan Niu University of Cincinnati, Matthew Van Doren Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, Reese Johnson Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati
DOI
16:10
10m
Paper
Software Development with Feature Toggles: Practices used by Practitioners
Journal First
Rezvan Mahdavi-Hezaveh North Carolina State University, Jacob Dremann North Carolina State University, Laurie Williams North Carolina State University
16:20
10m
Paper
How Can Manual Testing Processes Be Optimized? Developer Survey, Optimization Guidelines, and Case Studies
Industry Papers
Roman Haas Saarland University; CQSE, Daniel Elsner TU Munich, Elmar Juergens CQSE, Alexander Pretschner TU Munich, Sven Apel Saarland University
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
16:30
30m
Live Q&A
Q&A (Human Aspects—Software Practices 1)
Research Papers

Sat 28 Aug

Displayed time zone: Athens change

04:00 - 05:00
Human Aspects—Software Practices 1Industry Papers / Research Papers / Journal First
Chair(s): Eirini Kalliamvakou University of Victoria
04:00
10m
Paper
XAI Tools in the Public Sector: A Case Study on Predicting Combined Sewer OverflowsArtifacts AvailableArtifacts Reusable
Research Papers
Nicholas Maltbie University of Cincinnati, Nan Niu University of Cincinnati, Matthew Van Doren Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, Reese Johnson Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati
DOI
04:10
10m
Paper
Software Development with Feature Toggles: Practices used by Practitioners
Journal First
Rezvan Mahdavi-Hezaveh North Carolina State University, Jacob Dremann North Carolina State University, Laurie Williams North Carolina State University
04:20
10m
Paper
How Can Manual Testing Processes Be Optimized? Developer Survey, Optimization Guidelines, and Case Studies
Industry Papers
Roman Haas Saarland University; CQSE, Daniel Elsner TU Munich, Elmar Juergens CQSE, Alexander Pretschner TU Munich, Sven Apel Saarland University
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
04:30
30m
Live Q&A
Q&A (Human Aspects—Software Practices 1)
Research Papers