Teste de software com ênfase em conhecimento: uma proposta de estratégia

Abstract

Complexity in software development has been increased each year in its documentation artifacts, lines of code and in the number of people in development teams. Thus, it’s becoming harder to manage such products life-cycle along with its quality, budget and schedule fulfillment. Recent researches show the benefits of Knowledge Management practices to situations in which knowledge must be reachable and easily found. The objective of this work was to investigate the software test processes of a software development corporation and to propose the adoption of Knowledge Management practices, models and tools in order to obtain profits on product homologation efficiency. To accomplish this task, an exploratory research and a survey on Knowledge Management models, tools a d practices were made. Preliminary, results show a good acceptance to this incorporation and that this is promising in support to the software test area. It was concluded that Knowledge Management might be an effective way to support software test activities enabling product quality, budget and schedule fulfillment.