VITS - Visualization of Test Data for Decision Support

Software testing is the most important quality assurance mechanism in commercial software development and accounts for a significant part of development costs. The increasing size and complexity of systems, shorter development cycles and continuous deployment require effective and frequent testing. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to make sense of the large amount of test results.

Objectives

In particular, VITS will facilitate analytical reasoning to support the key decisions that are based in part on a correct interpretation of the results of software testing. These decisions include deciding where to invest additional testing effort (i.e. test search) for cost-effective testing and assessing confidence in the quality of a system for release (i.e. readiness for release).

Implementation

Project VITS uses data analytics and visualizations to support the interpretation of test results and facilitates analytical reasoning to support key decisions.

For companies, the project will provide support for two of the critical decisions in software development, which have a direct impact on their competitiveness in the market. From a scientific point of view, the project investigates the use of visualizations to support test capture and release readiness decisions in practice.