Context Many organizations see software test automation as a solution to decrease testing
costs and to reduce cycle time in software development. However, establishment of …

Context: The global software industry and the software engineering (SE) academia are two
large communities. However, unfortunately, the level of joint industry-academia …

Context GUI testing is system testing of a software that has a graphical-user interface (GUI)
front-end. Because system testing entails that the entire software system, including the user …

Abstract Context A Multivocal Literature Review (MLR) is a form of a Systematic Literature
Review (SLR) which includes the grey literature (eg, blog posts, videos and white papers) in …

Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) may not provide insight into the" state of the practice" in
SE, as they do not typically include the" grey"(non-published) literature. A Multivocal …

Software and system development faces numerous challenges of rapidly changing markets.
To address such challenges, companies and projects design and adopt specific …

Software testing is an important activity in the software development life-cycle. In an earlier
study in 2009, we reported the results of a regional survey of software testing practices …

Context Any newcomer or industrial practitioner is likely to experience difficulties in digesting
large volumes of knowledge in software testing. In an ideal world, all knowledge used in …

Many recent software engineering graduates often face difficulties when beginning their
professional careers, due to misalignment of the skills learned in their university education …

As a type of anti-pattern, test smells are defined as poorly designed tests and their presence
may negatively affect the quality of test suites and production code. Test smells are the …