Education for Software Testing Engineers Through a Consortium Collaborative Research

Abstract

This paper reports the education for software testing engineers through a consortium collaborative research on embedded real-time operating system for multiprocessor systems. This is long-term and practical educational program through the project of research and testing for open-source software that have been used in real industrial world. Unlike the usual collaborative research, young engineers who don′t have sufficient skill to operate high-level research and development can participate in our consortium actively. Eight practitioners from five industries got the education in 2009, and six practitioners from three industries got it in 2010. Effects of the program have been confirmed by observation of the result of research achievements and questionnaire.