I intend to combine the efforts of several research groups, currently conducting separate experimentations, and join their forces to carry out an experiment on a large scale using a common benchmark/frameworks. The idea is similar to launching an ―Open Experiment" initiative, similar to how some Open Source projects have been successfully conducted. However, not all open-source projects are necessarily successful, and experimentation, to be credible, needs very careful planning and control. We propose that in order to make the experimentation effective, testing techniques experimentation should be carried out on a large scale under unified framework in an open-source fashion in a very carefully planned and well-coordinated manner so that the realistic and generalized results are obtained in a shorter span of time.
On the sarcastic side. Many software publishers use this approach when the release their product to the field.
Now to the serious side. I too am confused about the objective of the experiments. So let me pose some questions:
1. What is the nature of the application?
2. Will the remote sites do their own testing or will a central authority control who is conducting what test?
3. How will test results be processed to requirements?
4. How will defects be documented and recorded?
In software engineering experimentation You should carefully plan, conduct (execute) and analyse obtained results applying well known methodology Design of Experiment (DOE) like in this useful article concerning test technique selection issue.
Lj. Lazić, N. Mastorakis. “Orthogonal Array application for optimal combination of software defect detection techniques choices”, WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMPUTERS, Issue 8, Volume 7, August 2008, p1319-1336.
Try eliminating all those fashionable buzz-words with which you are clearly in love. Then list _your_ objectives and not those of the first 5 papers which most impressed you. Then tellus what they are and we can help.
Dear Peter Farnell-Vinay
What do you mean by "not those of the first 5 papers which most impressed you."? Are you accusing me of plagiarism. And which fashionable buzz-word u found in the question i asked.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2593693
This is the link to the paper in which i presented this proposal. Hope it clarifies certain doubts in your mind.
Dear All
Before list all objectives, i would like to make it clear that as per my proposal the end product will be framework and not a Software. I repeat 'NOT A SOFTWARE'
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