Software testing as a service (TaaS): The BISA approach

In this paper an approach for designing a service-oriented software testing framework is discussed. This framework relies on a set of intelligent expert tools developed earlier in the context of the OptimalSQM initiative. After an overview of OptimalSQM, the paper concentrates on the key challenges that rise out of adopting Test as a Service (TaaS) in compliance with the movement of Software as a Service (SaaS). TaaS is, also examined from a social perspective by helping out software engineers discover necessary test services. © 2011 IEEE