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| author | Saadatmand, Mehrdad Khan, Abbas Marin, Beatriz Paiva, Ana C. R Van Asch, Nele Moran, Graham Cammaerts, Felix Snoeck, Monique Mendes, Alexandra |
| author_facet | Saadatmand, Mehrdad Khan, Abbas Marin, Beatriz Paiva, Ana C. R Van Asch, Nele Moran, Graham Cammaerts, Felix Snoeck, Monique Mendes, Alexandra |
| contents | The evolving landscape of software development demands that software testers continuously adapt to new tools, practices, and acquire new skills. This study investigates software testing competency needs in industry, identifies knowledge gaps in current testing education, and highlights competencies and gaps not addressed in academic literature. This is done by conducting two focus group sessions and interviews with professionals across diverse domains, including railway industry, healthcare, and software consulting and performing a curated small-scale scoping review. The study instrument, co-designed by members of the ENACTEST project consortium, was developed collaboratively and refined through multiple iterations to ensure comprehensive coverage of industry needs and educational gaps. In particular, by performing a thematic qualitative analysis, we report our findings and observations regarding: professional training methods, challenges in offering training in industry, different ways of evaluating the quality of training, identified knowledge gaps with respect to academic education and industry needs, future needs and trends in testing education, and knowledge transfer methods within companies. Finally, the scoping review results confirm knowledge gaps in areas such as AI testing, security testing and soft skills. |
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| spellingShingle | Software Testing Education and Industry Needs - Report from the ENACTEST EU Project Saadatmand, Mehrdad Khan, Abbas Marin, Beatriz Paiva, Ana C. R Van Asch, Nele Moran, Graham Cammaerts, Felix Snoeck, Monique Mendes, Alexandra Software Engineering The evolving landscape of software development demands that software testers continuously adapt to new tools, practices, and acquire new skills. This study investigates software testing competency needs in industry, identifies knowledge gaps in current testing education, and highlights competencies and gaps not addressed in academic literature. This is done by conducting two focus group sessions and interviews with professionals across diverse domains, including railway industry, healthcare, and software consulting and performing a curated small-scale scoping review. The study instrument, co-designed by members of the ENACTEST project consortium, was developed collaboratively and refined through multiple iterations to ensure comprehensive coverage of industry needs and educational gaps. In particular, by performing a thematic qualitative analysis, we report our findings and observations regarding: professional training methods, challenges in offering training in industry, different ways of evaluating the quality of training, identified knowledge gaps with respect to academic education and industry needs, future needs and trends in testing education, and knowledge transfer methods within companies. Finally, the scoping review results confirm knowledge gaps in areas such as AI testing, security testing and soft skills. |
| title | Software Testing Education and Industry Needs - Report from the ENACTEST EU Project |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14625 |