Identifying Relevant Information for Testing Technique Selection

List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements.

1: Introduction
1. Basics on Software Testing
2. The Problem of Selecting Testing Techniques
3. Getting a Characterisation Schema for Testing Techniques
4. Organisation of the Book.

2: State of the Practice
1. Areas Surveyed
2. Testing Area
3. Area of Characterisation
4. Conclusions on the State of the Practice.

3: Research Goals
1. Description of the Problem
2. Problem-Solving Approach
3. Hypotheses.

4: Problem-Solving Process
1. Research Methods
2. Objectives of Technological Research
3. Applying the Scientific Method to Technological Research
4. Expert Peer Review versus Experimental Testing
5. The Problem-Solving Process Used in this Book.

5: First Generative Iteration: Deductive Theoretical Schema
1. Description of the Research Stage: Generation of a Theoretical Schema
2. Testing Process
3. Stratification and Testing-Related Information
4. testing Process Elements
5. Attributes of the Theoretical Schema
6. Result of the Construction of the Theoretical Schema
7. Use and Evolution of the Characterisation Schema.

6: Second Generative Iteration: Inductive Empirical Schema
1. Description of the Research Stage: Generation of an Empirical Schema
2. Data Collection
3. Data Analysis
4. Result of Building the Empirical Schema
5. Study of the Evolution of the Empirical Schema.

7: Synthesis of Perspectives: Proposal of the Preliminary Schema
1. Description of the Research Stage: Synthesis of Schemas
2. Rules of Synthesis
3. Synthesis of the Theoretical and Empirical Schemas
4. Result of Schema Synthesis
5. Study of Schema Synthesis.

8: Improvement of the Schema: Expert Peer Review
1. Description of the Research Stage: Improvement
2. Questionnaire for Experts
3. Questionnaire Analysis Method
4. Analysis of Responses
5. Improved Schema.

9: Empirical Evaluation
1. Objective of the Experiment
2. Choice of the Workload
3. Analysis of the