Software testing is an engineering subject and similar to any other engineering field testing also have immense research opportunity. Research is happening in various fields related to software testing and organization as well as academics, both are working together in various research projects.

Intention of this page is to provide you information on the research happening in the testing field and contact information of the people working on it wherever possible. This information might be helpful for you if you are interested in research and working in the testing field. You can also get opportunity to work on research projects by collaborating with the person/institution driving these research.

Orthogonal Defect Classification

ODC technology was created by Ram Chillarege. ODC can be used to create measurement based on the data and information present in the defects. These ODC created measurement can be used for variety of management and technical purpose. More detail about the subject can be found here.

Pairwise Testing

We understand that exhaustive testing is not possible. It is a well known and well understood fact. Most of the time, software exhibit wrong behavior because some of the variable in system are in wrong state. In simpler cases, defects can be triggered by a single variable being in a single state. This is called single-mode fault. In more complex cases, defect will be surfaced only when two variables are in specific state. Pairwise testing can help in finding optimum dataset to cover all the required combination. More details about pairwise testing can be found here.