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Rather than 300 case studies of 300 different products, we'd prefer to have 300 case studies of 3 products. That way, readers of these web pages don't have to spend so much time understanding products. They can concentrate on understanding testing. Moreover, case studies can build on each other, and techniques can more easily be contrasted to each other. Of course, we will not reject any case study simply because it's on a different product.
We favor open source software products because you can do more with them. Much testing does not require the source code, but some does. Moreover, the bug fix cycle is faster for open source software. It would be no fun to find a bug, then wait a year for the release that actually fixes it. Developers on open source projects are more accessible. In summary, testing open source software is more representative of what testers do in their normal jobs than testing a released product would be.
Here are the projects we're targeting today. Follow the links to see what people have done and are doing.
The Product Under Test |
The Testing Effort |
AbiWord is a Word-like word processor for Linux, Windows, etc. |
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ELib is an add-on library to Java that adds secure distributed persistent computation. It underlies the scripting language E. |
ELide (not done) |
We should probably have more projects. In particular, it would be good to have case studies from projects that follow a more doctrinaire development style (requirements, specifications, design documents, etc.)
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