Study and development of software testing techniques and their applications

Abstract

This research project aims to contribute to the area of software testing by proposing new strategies, techniques and criteria to support the development of modern software products. Software development technology evolves ever faster, covering new environments, new application domains, and new architectures. With the increasing need to ensure quality in the software product, it is necessary to develop and adapt test techniques that follow this evolution. In particular, Virtual Reality systems, concurrent software, mobile robots, nonfunctional requirements and access control are themes that will be addressed in this project. In addition to the development of test techniques in these contexts, experimental studies will be carried out aiming at evaluating the new proposals in order to build a body of knowledge on evaluating testing techniques, criteria and tools. Also, teaching and training material on the approaches studied should be prepared with the purpose of transferring the new approaches produced to students and professionals of Software Engineering. Above all, the opportunity for collaboration between the teams, both specialist in the area of software testing, should produce results of extreme social and economic impact, given the importance that Computing and the development of quality software have in people's lives and in the countries' economies. (AU)