Implementación de una metodología y herramientas de pruebas para el grupo de desarrollo de software

Abstract

The Private Technical University of Loja within the Software Development Group. GDS of the Computer Systems and Projects Unit - UPSI has formed for approximately two years the SQA Team (Software Quality Assurance), in charge of quality assurance of the Software. This team has performed around 3000 tests until March 2006 throughout the development of the PHANTOM Project (Academic Management System - UTPL) and as a result of these tests detected more than 2300 defects. In order to carry out this whole process, Team members perform the tests manually, which causes a loss of time due to the complexity of the application, the constant changes of the same and the great amount of information that is handled . Another problem is that the system has undergone an evolution during its active life and in each new version or defects are corrected, new functions are added, or both. In any case, a new version requires the realization of new tests which demands more time. As it has been verified according to the problem raised, it is necessary to automate the tests, adopt a methodology and use one or several tools that allow us to execute the tests in a fast and effective way.