Software Testing Process Models Benefits&Drawbacks: a Systematic Literature Review <s> Meta-measurement approach <s> Existing test process assessment and improvement models intend to raise maturity of an organization with reference to testing activities. Such process assessments are based on ldquowhatrdquo testing activities are being carried out, and thus implicitly evaluate process quality. Other test process measurement techniques attempt to directly assess some partial quality attribute such as efficiency or effectiveness some test metrics. There is a need for a formalized method of test process quality evaluation that addresses both implicitly and partially of these current evaluations. This paper describes a conceptual framework to specify and explicitly evaluate test process quality aspects. The framework enables provision of evaluation results in the form of objective assessments, and problem-area identification to improve the software testing processes. <s> BIB001 </s> Software Testing Process Models Benefits&Drawbacks: a Systematic Literature Review <s> Meta-measurement approach <s> As one of the most challenging and costly processes, the software testing provides strong support for the high quality software. The popular process improvement models do not adequately address testing application issues, nor has the knowledge management (KM) implementation in testing been well defined. The plan-do-check-action (PDCA)-based testing improvement framework is proposed to address these issues. The framework contains the adaptive processes definition, the processes implementation and measurement analysis, and benchmarking-based assessment approach. Experiments show that: the framework can stimulate team member's subjective initiative, promote the software testing process and improve the testing service quality. <s> BIB002
The Meta-measurement model [TM11] was developed to specify and evaluate quality aspects of the test process. The evaluation process is derived from the Evaluation Theory, which defines six elements: target, evaluation criteria, reference standard, assessment techniques, synthesis techniques and evaluation process. All of these elements were applied in the Meta-measurement approach BIB001 . 4.1.12 Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA)-based software testing improvement model The PDCA-based software testing improvement model [TM12] provides processes to improve service quality and performance for third party testing centers. It focuses mainly on knowledge management (KM) and balance of processes standardization and flexibility. The framework consists of the following phases: building a learning organization through KM, preparing a process-oriented plan, implementing the plan and collecting data, and continuous improvement BIB002 . 