Attila Kovács
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (HU)

Biography

Attila Kovács, PhD, is currently a senior research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Faculty of Informatics. His professional is related to mathematics, software engineering and computer science. He is a project leader of several R&D projects. Among others he is the co-author of the book “Practical Test Design”, he is ISTQB and IREB trainer, founder of the Hungarian Testing Board.
Presentation: Test design revisited I-II

 

The talk is about the modern art of test design. We discuss shortly how test design is encapsulated into the software testing process, why risk management is unavoidable. We show a better approach for EP and BVA with a reliable test selection criterion using ON/OFF/IN/OUT data points. We also show how to reduce the number of tests in combinatorial testing preserving reliability. Our new methods are demonstrated by several examples and case studies.