This document provides a brief history of software testing from the 1950s to present day. It notes some of the early independent test teams in the 1950s and publications about testing methods in the 1960s. Major developments in the 1970s included the definition of techniques like equivalence partitioning and cause-effect graphing. The 1980s saw the definition of test cases and models like the V-model as well as the introduction of exploratory testing. Test automation tools emerged in the 1990s and the ISTQB was founded in 2002. Modern approaches now include acceptance test driven development, behavior driven development, and crowdsourcing.

1. Sergejus Bartoš 2016
sergejus.bartos@devbridge.com
Introduction to History of
Software Testing

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Pierre Audoin Consultants has forecasted the software testing
spends to hit Eur 100 billions by 2014.
IDC and Gartner forecast that the enterprise spending on
independent testing services would cross the benchmark USD 30
billions by 2015

3. What is $$$ in software testing?
Software testing spends - Eur 100
billions
Enterprise spending on
independent testing services -
USD 30 billions
Lithuanian GDP – Eur 37 bilions

4. Brief History of SoftwareTesting

5. Wiki History of SoftwareTesting

6. Before 1970
1958 – First independentTestTeam at IBM
1960s:
Testing is mentioned in “Computer Programming Fundamentals”
book by JerryWeinberg as separated from debugging.
Some of theTesting methods whitepapers are published (IBM, 1967)
NATO report mentions Software Quality (1968)

7. 1970’s
Equivalence Classes, Boundaries,
Error Guessing, Cause/Effect
Graphing, Cyclomatic complexity,
Quality metrics, structure based
testing, code inspections…

8. 1980’s
Test Cases;V-Model System/Integration/Unit,
Code, Branch, Input Coverage Metrics
IEEE 829
ExploratoryTesting introduced by Cem Kaner
(1988)
Black-box and White-box testing techniques are
defined

9. 1990’s
Record-play software (Winrunner)
First “Star” conference (1992, LasVegas)
First “Eurostar” conference (1993, London)
Tmap published (1995)
ISEB certification created (1998)
James Bach – Context DrivenTesting (1999)

10. 2000’s
James Bach – Rapid SoftwareTesting, Session Based
Testing
ISTQB founded (2002)
IBM RationalTester (2002), Selenium (2004)
uTest – crowdsourcing, 2008

11. Our Days
AcceptanceTest Driven Development (ATDD)
Behavior DrivenTesting (BDT)

12. Schools of SoftwareTesting
Analytical School
Factory School
QA School
Context Driven School

13. Sergejus Bartoš 2016
sergejus.bartos@devbridge.com
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