Windows Exploratory Testing (WET) is examined to determine whether testers working in
pairs produce higher quality results, are more productive, or exhibit greater confidence and
job satisfaction than testers working alone.
WET is a form of application testing where a tester (or testers) explores an unknown
application to determine the application's purpose and main user, produce a list of
functions (categorized as primary and contributing), write a test case outline, and capture a
list of instabilities. The result of performing WET is a report that includes the above with a
list of issues and questions raised by the tester. The experiment measured and compared
the quality of these reports.
Pair testing is a new field of study, one suggested by the success of pair programming,
especially in the use of Extreme Programming (XP). In pair programming, two
programmers work at a single workstation, with a single keyboard and mouse, performing
a single programming task. Experimental and anecdotal evidence shows that programs
written by pairs are of higher quality than programs written solo. This success suggests that
pair testing might yield positive results.
As a result of the experiment, we conclude that pair testing does not produce significantly
higher quality results than solo testing. Nor are pairs more productive. Nonetheless, some
areas are noted as deserving further study. / Graduation date: 2002
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/32506 |
| Date | 31 May 2001 |
| Creators | Lischner, Ray |
| Contributors | Cook, Curtis |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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