What Malaysian Software Students Think about Testing?

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops Pub Date : 2020-06-27 DOI:10.1145/3387940.3392167

Luiz Fernando Capretz, S. Basri, Maythem Adili, Aamir Amin

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Software testing is one of the crucial supporting processes of software life cycle. Unfortunately for the software industry, the role is stigmatized, partly due to misperception and partly due to treatment of the role in the software industry. The present study aims to analyse this situation to explore what inhibit an individual from taking up a software testing career. In order to investigate this issue, we surveyed 82 senior students taking a degree in information technology, information and communication technology, and computer science at two Malaysian universities. The subjects were asked the PROs and CONs of taking up a career in software testing and what were the chances that they would do so. The study identified 7 main PROs and 9 main CONSs for starting a testing career, and indicated that the role of software tester has been perceived as a social role, with more soft skills connotations than technical implications. The results also show that Malaysian students have a more positive attitude towards software testing than their counterparts where similar investigations have been carried out.

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马来西亚软件专业学生对测试的看法?

软件测试是软件生命周期的重要支撑过程之一。不幸的是，对于软件行业来说，这个角色被污名化了，部分原因是误解，部分原因是软件行业对这个角色的对待。本研究旨在分析这种情况，以探索是什么阻碍了个人从事软件测试职业。为了调查这个问题，我们调查了82名在马来西亚两所大学攻读信息技术、信息与通信技术和计算机科学学位的高年级学生。研究对象被问及从事软件测试工作的利弊，以及他们这样做的可能性有多大。该研究确定了开始测试职业生涯的7个主要优点和9个主要缺点，并指出软件测试人员的角色已经被视为一个社会角色，具有更多的软技能内涵而不是技术含义。调查结果还显示，马来西亚学生对软件测试的态度比其他国家的学生更积极。

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