Testing References - The History of Software Testing. The History of Software Testing. Developed by Joris Meerts, with additional contributions from Dorothy Graham. Difference engine (Babbage) The English inventor Charles Babbage starts working on a prototype of his first difference engine. The difference engine is made to compute values of polynomial functions. Babbage's machines were among the first mechanical computers. 1. Methods of inductive reasoning (Mill) In the A System of Logic the British philosopher John Stuart Mill publishes five methods of inductive reasoning; the reasoning from a specific case or cases to a general rule.
The fundamental principle of induction is the proposition that the course of nature is uniform. Lovelace's notes on the Analytical Engine During a nine- month period in 1. Lovelace translates Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea's memoir on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. With the article, she appends a set of notes.
Thirty years after Glenford Myers published the first edition of The Art of Software Testing, many testers use. Introduction. Software Testing is the process of executing a program or system with the intent of finding errors. Or, it involves any activity aimed at evaluating an.
Book Description The hardware and software of computing have changed markedly in the three decades since the first edition of The Art of Software Testing, but this. Other Books in 'Software Testing' Category: Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design, by J. Whittaker (2009). The History of Software Testing Developed by Joris Meerts, with additional contributions from Dorothy Graham. Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can.
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- It is a type of non-functional testing. Volume testing refers to testing a software application or the product with a certain amount of data. E.g., if we want to.
- Dynamic testing (or dynamic analysis) is a term used in software engineering to describe the testing of the dynamic behavior of code. That is, dynamic analysis refers.
The notes include a method for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers with the Engine. Based on this work, Lovelace is now widely credited with being the first computer programmer and her method is recognised as the world's first computer program. 1. System flaw termed as bug (Edison) According to the The Yale Book of Quotations the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison uses the term 'bug' in a letter to Theodore Puskas to describe a flaw in a system. According to other sources the term bug was commonly used to describe systems faults in Edison's time. 1. IBM founded The company which becomes IBM is founded in 1. Tabulating Machine Company by Herman Hollerith in Broome County, New York. It is incorporated as Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation on June 1.
The company is named International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1. Pareto Principle (8.
In his book Manual of Political Economy the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto publishes the mathematical formula to describe the unequal distribution of wealth in his country, observing that twenty percent of the people owned eighty percent of the wealth. The formula becomes known as the Pareto principle but also, through popularization by Joseph Juran, as the 8. Shewhart Cycle In his second book Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control Walter Andrew Shewhart publishes his Scientific Method of Improvement. Page 4. 5 of this book displays the first version of the Shewhart Cycle; a three step cycle constituting a dynamic scientific process of acquiring knowledge. Walter Edwards Deming later popularizes the method as the Plan Do Check Act method (The Deming Cycle). 1. Harvard Mark I installed The Harvard Mark I, also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), is installed at Harvard and formally presented on August 7, 1. The Mark I is a parallel synchronous calculator that can perform table lookup and the four fundamental arithmetic operations, in any specified sequence, on numbers up to 2.
The machine was conceived by Howard H. Aiken in the 1. 93. Von Neumann architecture In the paper First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC John von Neumann published the description of the logical design of a computer using the stored- program concept. This is the design on which most computers nowadays are based. The paper is distributed on June 3.
Herman Goldstine. 1. ISO founded The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded during a conference in London in 1. ISO is born from the union of two organizations; the ISA (International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations), established in New York in 1. UNSCC (United Nations Standards Coordinating Committee), established in 1. On Checking a Large Routine (Turing) In the conference paper On Checking a Large Routine Alan M. Turing proposes an answer to the question how one can check a routine in the sense of making sure that it is right. 1.
Turing Test (Turing) In his 1. Computing Machinery and Intelligence Alan M. Turing introduces the Turing Test; a test of a machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. 1. Juran's Quality Control Handbook (Juran) In his book Juran's Quality Control Handbook Joseph M. Juran defines quality as 'fitness for use'. Juran, who is considered to be the founding father of quality management, defines three processes for the management of quality; quality planning, quality control and quality improvement. Total Quality Control (Feigenbaum) In his famous book 'Total Quality Control' Armand Vallin Feigenbaum defines quality as a customer determination.
Quality depends on the perspective of the customer. The product should satisfy the customer in both actual and expected needs. There is a company- wide responsibility for quality. First practical text on programming (Wilkes) The book The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer by authors Maurice V. Wilkes, David J. Wheeler and Stanley Gill is the first practical text on computer programming.
The authors draw on their experience from designing the EDSAC. 1. IBM 7. 01 released The IBM 7. Defense Calculator is IBM's first production computer. It is the first of the very popular IBM 7. The computer contains two electrostatic storage units and an electronic analytical and control unit.
A unit rented for about $1. First Fortran manual The first Fortran manual (an automatic coding system for the IBM 7. IBM in October 1. It describes the variables, functions, expressions and control statements of the language. 1. Program testing vs debugging (Baker) Charles L. Baker (RAND Corporation) distinguishes program testing from debugging in his review of the book Digital Computer Programming by Dan Mc. Cracken. The review is published in the journal Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation. Digital Computer Programming (Mc.
Cracken) Daniel D. Mc. Cracken's book Digital Computer Programming is perhaps the first general textbook on programming. Mc. Cracken writes the book while working for General Electric. He discusses a number of programming techniques such as program checkouts. Mc. Cracken specifically advises using break points in a program at which the functioning of the program may be verified. 1.
First software test team (Weinberg) The first test team is formed by Gerald M. Weinberg, working as manager of Operating Systems Development for the Project Mercury. Project Mercury is the first human spaceflight program of the United States. 1.
Work Breakdown Structure In their classic paper Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) D. G. Malcolm, J. H. Roseboom, C. E. Clark and W. Fazar introduce their method to analyze the involved tasks in completing a given project.
Although not mentioned by that name in the paper they also introduce the Work Breakdown Structure. Critical- Path Method (Kelley, Walker) In their paper Critical- Path Planning and Scheduling James E. Kelley and Morgan R. Walker offer a planning and scheduling methodology for complex projects. They introduce the Critical- Path Method in order to create optimal direct cost schedules. The authors use project diagrams of tasks and link these tasks (jobs) based on three questions; what immediately precedes this job, what immediately follows this job and what can be concurrent with this job? 1. Computer Programming Fundamentals (Leeds, Weinberg) The book Computer Programming Fundamentals by Gerald Weinberg and Herbert Leeds contains a chapter on software testing. Weinberg and Leeds argue that testing should prove the adaptability of a computer program instead of its ability to process information. Decision table (Grad) In the paper Tabular Form in Decision Logic, published in Datamation in July 1.
Burton Grad, working at IBM, introduces decision tables. 1. Flowchart symbols standardized (Rossheim) In his paper Report on proposed American standard flowchart symbols for information processing Robert J. Rossheim describes the standard symbols to be used for flowcharting. Rossheim publishes his work for the American Standards Association, later ANSI. 1. First Basic program runs Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz run the first Basic program at Dartmouth College.
Kemeny and Kurtz write the language to aid the teaching of computer programming. Basic is an acronym for Beginner's All- Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. 1. Evaluation of the Functional Testing of Control Programs In the IBM white paper Evaluation of the Functional Testing of Control Programs William Elmendorf calls for a disciplined approach to software testing. Software engineering introduced The term 'software engineering' is coined by a NATO study group that recommends a conference to discuss 'the problems of software'. The report from the ensuing 1. NATO Science Committee and took place in Garmish, Germany, is titled Software Engineering. Brian Randell and Peter Naur point out in the introduction to their.
The phrase 'software engineering' was deliberately chosen as being provocative, in implying the need for software manufacture to be [based] on the types of theoretical foundations and practical disciplines[,] that are traditional in the established branches of engineering. 1. NATO report mentions Software Quality Assurance During the Software Engineering conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee (7th to 1. October 1. 96. 8) among other things quality assurance for software production is one of the topics. The report of the conference includes the working paper Checklist for planning software system production by Robert W. Bemer. This paper contains a chapter on quality assurance. One of the questions in the checklist is 'Is the product tested to ensure that it is the most useful for the customer in addition to matching functional specifications?'.
Structured programming (Dijkstra) In his letter Go To Statement Considered Harmful published in the March 1. Communications of the ACM, Edsger Dijkstra criticizes the excessive use of the GOTO statement in programming languages.
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