Tytuł:

Active – Passive: On Preconceptions of Testing, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2011, nr 3

Autor:

Brzeziński, Krzysztof M.

Temat i słowa kluczowe:

reactive systems ; monitoring ; development ; Scientific Method ; passive testing ; behavior ; metrology

Opis:

In telecommunications and software engineering, testing is normally understood to be essentially active: a tester is said to stimulate, control, and enforce. Passive testing does not fit this paradigm and thus remains the niche research subject, which bears on the scope and depth of the obtained results. It is argued that such limited understanding of testing is one of its many community-bound preconceptions. It may be acceptable in the current engineering approach to testing, but can and should be challenged in order to converge on the core concepts of the proposed science of testing (“testology”). This methodological work aims at establishing that there are no fundamental reasons for admitting the dominant role of the active element in testing. To show this, external (also extra- technical) areas are consulted for insight, direct observations, and metaphors. The troublesome distinction between (passive) testing and monitoring, as well as unclear relations between testing and measurements, are also addressed.

Wydawca:

Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Warszawa

Data wydania:

2011, nr 3

Typ zasobu:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Identyfikator zasobu:

ISSN 1509-4553, on-line: ISSN 1899-8852

DOI:

10.26636/jtit.2011.3.1159

ISSN:

1509-4553

eISSN:

1899-8852

Źródło:

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Język:

ang

Prawa:

Biblioteka Naukowa Instytutu Łączności