Social Aspects of Software Testing: Comparative Studies in Asia
This study attempts to understand motivators and de-motivators that influence the decisions of software students to take up and sustain software testing careers across three different Asian countries, i.e., China, India, and Malaysia. The research question can be framed as �How many software stude...
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my.utp.eprints.337482022-09-12T08:18:47Z Social Aspects of Software Testing: Comparative Studies in Asia Capretz, L.F. Jia, J. Waychal, P. Basri, S. This study attempts to understand motivators and de-motivators that influence the decisions of software students to take up and sustain software testing careers across three different Asian countries, i.e., China, India, and Malaysia. The research question can be framed as �How many software students across different Asian geographies are keen to take up testing careers, and what are the reasons for their choices?� Towards an answer, we developed a cross-sectional but simple survey-based instrument. In this work, we investigated how software students perceived the software testing role. The results from China and India revealed that students are not very keen on taking up a software tester career, but the Malaysia students� show a more positive attitude towards software testing. The study also pointed out the importance of considering software testing activities as a set of human-dependent tasks and emphasized the need for further research that examines critically individual assessments of software testers about software testing activities. This investigation can academics involved in software testing courses to understand the impacting factors on the motivation and de-motivators of their students, as well as to try convey positive view of testing as challenging and requires critical thinking and innovative ideas. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH 2022 Article NonPeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130307391&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-031-04826-5_34&partnerID=40&md5=428b6d2893440c0c6db3e061984ee0d7 Capretz, L.F. and Jia, J. and Waychal, P. and Basri, S. (2022) Social Aspects of Software Testing: Comparative Studies in Asia. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 468 LN . pp. 346-355. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/33748/ |
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This study attempts to understand motivators and de-motivators that influence the decisions of software students to take up and sustain software testing careers across three different Asian countries, i.e., China, India, and Malaysia. The research question can be framed as �How many software students across different Asian geographies are keen to take up testing careers, and what are the reasons for their choices?� Towards an answer, we developed a cross-sectional but simple survey-based instrument. In this work, we investigated how software students perceived the software testing role. The results from China and India revealed that students are not very keen on taking up a software tester career, but the Malaysia students� show a more positive attitude towards software testing. The study also pointed out the importance of considering software testing activities as a set of human-dependent tasks and emphasized the need for further research that examines critically individual assessments of software testers about software testing activities. This investigation can academics involved in software testing courses to understand the impacting factors on the motivation and de-motivators of their students, as well as to try convey positive view of testing as challenging and requires critical thinking and innovative ideas. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. |
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