REQUIREMENTS AND WISHED FEATURES FOR SOFTWARE TESTING TOOLS: A STUDY BASED ON THE USE OF SQFD

Abstract

This paper presents a set of requirements related to software testing tools. These requirements were elicited during several meetings with software development professionals. We adopted the software quality function deployment (SQFD) in order to prioritize the identified requirements and technical issues, generating relevant information regarding the testing tools. This information can be used to compare and select testing tools. It can also be used by testing tool developers to direct their development effort towards aspects considered important by the users of this kind of tools, the testers.