Rajesh Subramanyan

Improving Evidence about Software Technologies: A Look at Model-Based Testing

A rich body of experiences hasnt yet been published on all the software development techniques researchers have proposed. In fact, by some estimates, the techniques for which we do have substantial experience are few and far between. When we started looking at the evidence on model-based testing (MBT), we thought wed come across some strong studies that showed this approachs capabilities compared to conventional testing techniques-this wasnt the case. However, we can still extract some useful knowledge and also discuss some issues that are relevant to other software technologies with similar types of evidence.

The central role of test automation in software quality assurance

Welcome to this special section on the Automation of Software Test. It is inspired by the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST 2015) held in Firenze, Italy, on 23 and 24 May 2015, in conjunction with the ICSE 2015 conference. The authors of selected papers presented at AST 2015 were invited to submit extended and revised versions of their corresponding workshop papers. At the same time, an open call-for-papers was announced publicly and distributed in the software engineering community. Eighteen papers were submitted. Each paper was reviewed by active researchers and experts in the related subject areas. The review process has followed the journal’s review protocol and applied the journal’s quality standards. Eight papers were finally accepted for inclusion. AST 2015 was the 10th consecutive ASTworkshop at the ICSE conference. In the past few years, the workshops have attracted large numbers of high-quality papers and large numbers of delegates participating in the active exchanges of research results and practical experiences and lively charrette discussions on selected special themes of test automation. As a result, we have previously published six journal special issues/sections containing extended and revised Software Qual J (2017) 25:797–802 DOI 10.1007/s11219-017-9383-5

10th international workshop on automation of software test (AST 2015)

This paper is a report on The 10th IEEE/ACMInternational Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST2015) at the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering(ICSE 2015). It sets a special theme on testing oracles.Keynote speeches and charette discussions are organized aroundthis special theme. 16 full research papers and 2 keynotes willbe presented in the two-day workshop. The report will give thebackground of the workshop and the selection of the specialtheme, and report on the organization of the workshop. Theprovisional program will be presented with a list of the sessionsand papers to be presented at the workshop.

IEEE IRI 2014 invited industry talks (I): Managing shared information in multi-tenant service provider applications

Service provider applications, for example in the form of Software-as-a-Service are different from traditional enterprise software systems because they need to enable serving multiple customers at a time with a shared infrastructure. While the property of multi-tenancy refers to the isolation of different customers on a shared system, multi-customer support enables a service provider to add value by taking advantage of different customers being (virtually) collocated in the same application. This can be used for efficiency purposes, which is important e.g. to render services based on data or infrastructure of multiple accounts, or analyze operations data from different accounts to gain common insights. This is quite common, e.g., in the case of service management systems such as help desk ticketing in which service provider employees work on problem tickets of different client companies but these tenants are isolated from each other. Alternatively, this also enables a service provider to share curated data that customers can pair with their own sources to gain insights, a typical big data application. This presentation will discuss issues of managing access in this scenario of multi-tenancy with controlled sharing of data and presents an approach to address this problem.

Panel description: testing as a service in the cloud

Summary form only given. The expert panelists will present their views and experiences covering questions including, 1. What in your view is cloud testing and its benefits? 2. What types of testing are suitable for testing on the Cloud? 3. What are the factors to successfully providing testing as a service? 4. What are the problems and challenges in Testing in the Cloud? 5. What are the major differences between conventional software testing and cloudbased software testing? The second part of the session will be a lively discussion with questions from the audience as well as the following. 1. How easy or difficult is it to set-up test environments for testing in the cloud? 2. What is the true value-addition in TaaS? 3. Is TaaS secure? Can security sensitive applications be tested in the Cloud? What about applications from regulated industry such as healthcare, with confidential patient information? 4. Is TaaS here to stay? Panelists will summarize their vision on the future.

Panel Description: Evolving Software Models for Global Organizations

Demanding stakeholders, newer markets, continuous pressure to reduce costs and improving the bottom line are driving organizations to transform into nimble global organizations. With an organizational spread over geographies, multicultural teams and unique local environments and challenges, running a software delivery program for these organizations needs strong delivery models with sensitivity to local cultures. Such programs are likely to face challenges such as coordination, communication, synergy among multi-location teams, and configuration management etc. in the absence of a well defined global delivery model.The panel goal is to discuss evolving delivery models catering to the needs of large global organizations, both from a customer and service provider’s point of view