Defect Bash - Literature Review
Defect bash is a co-located testing session performed by a group of people. We performed a systematic review of the academic and grey literature, i.e. informally published writings, of the defect bash. Altogether, we found 44 items (17 academic and 27 grey literature sources) that were identified useful for the review. Based on the review the definition of defect bash is presented, benefits and limitations of using defect bash are given. Finally, the process of doing defect bash is outlined. This review provides initial understanding on how defect bash could be useful in achieving the software quality and lays foundation for further academic studies of this topic.
The Effect of Team Exploratory Testing -- Experience Report from F-Secure
Practitioners have found exploratory testing (ET) to be cost effective in detecting defects. The team exploratory testing (TET) approach scales exploratory testing to team level. This paper reports the effectiveness of (TET), and the experiences of the participants of TET sessions. The research was carried at F-Secure Corporation, where two projects were investigated. The results show that the TET sessions have good effectiveness and higher efficiency than other testing methods in the company measured in number of defects detected. Furthermore, the TET sessions found more usability defects that other methods. The session participants saw benefits in especially in the joint discussion and learning of the target application. However, with respect to test effectiveness and efficiency we should be cautions as further studies are needed to compensate the limitations of this work.
SR topography of plastically deformed Fe-Si bicrystals - observation in situ and post mortem
SR reflection topography was applied to study the interaction of slip dislocations with the grain boundaries in Fe-4at%Si bicrystals deformed by compression. Three experimental settings with either a white or monochromatic beam were used and the corresponding orientation contrast analysed. Dislocation transmission through the grain boundary was observed in bicrystals with favourable geometry of the slip systems.