Authors:
Letícia De Souza Santos
1
;
Rejane Maria Da Costa Figueiredo
1
;
2
;
Rafael Fazzolino Pinto Barbosa
1
;
Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi
3
;
Glauco Vitor Pedrosa
2
;
1
and
John Lenon Cardoso Gardenghi
1
;
2
Affiliations:
1
Information Technology Research and Application Center (ITRAC), University of Brasilia (UnB), Brasilia, DF, Brazil
;
2
Post-Graduate Program in Applied Computing, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brasilia, DF, Brazil
;
3
Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar), Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Recommendation Systems, Exploratory Testing, Profile of Testers.
Abstract:
This work presents an empirical study on the relationship between the testers’ profile and their efficiency and preference in the application of tours with tourist metaphor for exploratory software testing. For this purpose, we developed and applied a questionnaire based model to gather as much as possible information about the knowledge, expertise and education level from a group of testers. The results indicated that, in fact, the testers’ profile have impact on the application of tours used in the tourist metaphor: there are differences between the tours preferred by different levels of education and most of testers tend to choose those tours based on what they believed to have the shortest execution time. This work raises a valuable discussion about a humanized process of assigning test tasks in order to improve the efficiency of software testing.
