SOFTWARE TESTING TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES USE IN NOVICE SOFTWARE TEAMS

Abstract

Software testing is one of the stages in the life cycle of software development. Novice software developers typically perform software testing improperly. The aims of this study are to know the strategies and to get proper testing techniques that are used in black and white box, along with the enabler and inhibitor. There are 76 novice software developers involved in this study as software testers. Finally the results show that the top down strategy (93%) is more popular than bottom up (7%) in terms of testing strategy. Meanwhile in testing technique graph based and basis path are the most popular techniques in black box and white box respectively. Abstrak