Software Testing Process Models Benefits&Drawbacks: a Systematic Literature Review <s> Which are the advantages and drawbacks of each testing model as reported in the empirical papers? (RQ3) <s> Synthesizing the evidence from a set of studies that spans many countries and years, and that incorporates a wide variety of research methods and theoretical perspectives, is probably the single most challenging task of performing a systematic review. In this paper, we perform a tertiary review to assess the types and methods of research synthesis in systematic reviews in software engineering. Almost half of the 31 studies included in our review did not contain any synthesis; of the ones that did, two thirds performed a narrative or a thematic synthesis. The results show that, despite the focus on systematic reviews, there is, currently, limited attention to research synthesis in software engineering. This needs to change and a repertoire of synthesis methods needs to be an integral part of systematic reviews to increase their significance and utility for research and practice. <s> BIB001 </s> Software Testing Process Models Benefits&Drawbacks: a Systematic Literature Review <s> Which are the advantages and drawbacks of each testing model as reported in the empirical papers? (RQ3) <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
Based on the article of Cruzes and Dybå BIB001 about synthesizing evidence in research papers, we collect and cate- BIB002 gorize models' advantages and disadvantages.