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Project Number: IST-2001-32429
Project Acronym: ICONS
Title: Software Test Cases And Acceptance Protocol
Deliverable No.: D23
Due date: 30.12.03
Delivery Date: 30.04.2004
Partners owning: SEMA
Partners contributed:Rodan
Made available to: Internal circulation within project (and Commission Project Officer + reviewers if requested)
This report is an extract of the complete testing documentation of the ICONS platform. It focuses on initial (test specifications) and final (testing reports) testing stages.
Testing is an indispensable activity on the way of the ICONS platform towards full industrialisation.
Although some elements of the development process were defined and put into operation (see [ICONS D14]) they were mainly oriented towards creation of new functionality, integration and building in some elementary quality characteristic. Taking into account the prototype development assumption, different technological cultures represented by the partners, complexity and size of the platform as well as strict delivery deadlines the initial platform quality could not be on the average industrial level.
Indeed, early exploitation of the platform in the Structural Fund Project Knowledge Portal (SFP KP) development revealed a significant number of errors and deficiencies. Fortunately, both the platform maintenance and the portal development were carried out by the same team. This allowed working in an extremely short feedback cycle and led to a dramatic quality improvement. The role of SFP KP as an early validation and verification case can not be overestimated. However, the SFP KP application can by no means be though of as a systematic and thorough testing process. The SFP KP portal uses different modules to various extent. Additionally, the modules are parameterised and operated in a very specific operational profile of structural funds.
The hereby described testing was carried out as a planned activity with a rigorous and systematic process (see chapter Testing methodology). The primary testing and the regression testing identified and reported a number of significant bugs, removed then by the maintenance team of the ICONS platform. The faults densities achieved during the second round of testing were lower than thresholds of acceptance criteria defined in [ICONS D03] (Evaluation criteria). Therefore, we claim the prototype ICONS platform is of the appropriate quality. For the owners of the ICONS platform this a very promising starting point for further industrialization and usage in consecutive commercial applications.