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Enhancing Testing Technologies for Globalization of Software Engineering and Productivity
Abstract
While successful at increasing code churn rates, global software development and evolution suffers from several quality assurance challenges. First, sub-groups within developer communities often work on loosely coupled parts of the application code. Each developer (sub-group) typically modifies a local “copy” of the code and frequently checks-in changes (and downloads other developers’ changes). Consequently, after making a change, a developer may not immediately realize that the local change has inadvertently broken other parts of the overall software code. This situation is compounded as there is little direct inter-developer communication -- almost all communication is done via web-based tools such as code commit log messages, bug reports, change-requests, and comments. This chapter outlines the challenges that global software development adds to the already-complex quality assurance process. Two case studies of real software projects implemented in a disturbed manner demonstrate the importance of continuous integration testing and the positive consequences of increasing the diversity of quality assurance techniques/tools. Finally, it concludes with an outline of how software integration testing needs to be enhanced to meet the new challenges of globalization.
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