Abstract:
Small scale IT and software development organizations have grown in numbers in the
outgoing decade. This is because the size and turnover of the overall market.
Technological advancements at the infrastructure level have also motivated this
growth. This is posed overreaching requirement to ensure quality within time and cost
since time to market has reduced and the competition has increased. To survive in a
comparative environment Small Software Enterprises (SSEs) need to produce quality
software systems. Software Testing is one of and the most important activity to ensure
quality. Another dimension to contention is that we have research and development
for larger setups and for more matured software development practices but the main
growth is in the small and medium sector enterprises where software testing is carried
out as an ad-hoc or an add-on activity.
At first step in this study we have explored the state of software testing process
adoption in local Small Software Enterprises (SSEs). Next we have collected and
analyzed the opinion of local Small Software Enterprises (SSEs) on factors (explored
from literature) affecting software testing process adoption in local Small Software
Enterprises (SSEs). We have done this using survey as research strategy and online
questionnaire as research tool. In the second part this study analyzed the associations
between Software Enterprise Size (Number of Employees) and TMMI level-2 process
areas using Chi-Square test. Chi-Square test is further applied on the survey data to
analyze associations between each TMMi level-2 process area and the output of
testing phase in local Small Software Enterprises (SSEs).
