Improving Software Testing Technical and Organizational Developments

​Software is continuously increasing in complexity. Paradigmatic shifts and new development frameworks make it easier to implement software – but not to test it. Software testing remains to be a topic with many open questions with regard to both technical

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Tim A. Majchrzak

Improving Software Testing Technical and Organizational Developments

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Tim A. Majchrzak Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Leonardo Campus 3 48149 Münster Germany

ISSN 2192-4929 ISBN 978-3-642-27463-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-27464-0

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