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Expert review of taxonomy based testing – a testing framework for medical device software

Rajaram, Hamsini Ketheswarasarma orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-3294-3906, Loane, John, MacMahon, Silvana Togneri orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-0179-2436 and McCaffery, Fergal orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-0839-8362 (2019) Expert review of taxonomy based testing – a testing framework for medical device software. In: 26th European Conference on Software Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2019), 18-20 Sept 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland. ISBN 978-3-030-28005-5

Abstract
This paper details the expert review of a framework developed to implement a novel testing approach called taxonomy-based testing (TBT) for the medical device software domain. This framework proposes three approaches to implement TBT and has been validated by experts from the software testing industry and the medical device software domain. This paper details the results from the expert review. The expert review focused on validating the three approaches to TBT, the benefits of TBT to medical device software development, the accuracy of mappings of testing techniques from ISTQB and ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-4:2015 to defects from a defect taxonomy, the integration of TBT into the standard test processes, ISTQB and ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-2:2013 and the structure of the framework. The contribution of this paper is to reveal that (i) the framework is implementable in medical device software organisations that follow the IEC 62304:2006+A1:2015 software development process or that use standard test processes, (ii) using a defect taxonomy could standardise the application of experience-based approaches to software testing and (iii) considering potential defects before writing test cases could identify additional defects for test cases.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Taxonomy based testing; Defect taxonomy; Medical device software; The US FDA; Taxonomy; SW91; ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119; IEC 62304; Framework; Expert review; Software testing; Recalls
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Published in: EuroSPI 2019: Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. Communications in Computer and Information Science 1060. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-28005-5
Publisher:Springer
Official URL:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28005-5_47
Copyright Information:© 2019 Springer
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland grant 13/RC/2094, European Regional Development Fund through the Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme to Lero—the Irish Software Research Centre
ID Code:26824
Deposited On:25 Mar 2022 10:55 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 25 Mar 2022 10:56
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