This paper aims to unveil and gather testing-related information from Stack Overflow, highlighting it as a valuable resource for practitioners seeking answers and guidance.
The study aims to accumulate knowledge from real-life experiences shared on Stack Overflow and bridge the knowledge gap between industry practices and teaching practices.
The paper explores different types of software testing, popular frameworks, temporal trends of testing-related technologies, controversial opinions, and recommended practices/advice/suggestions from Stack Overflow posts. The methodology involves determining search terms through literature, querying the Stack Exchange API, conducting frequency analysis of words from posts, and manually inspecting threads. Our results show that the most popular frameworks discussed are Selenium, Spring, JMeter, and React. Automated testing and JavaScript frameworks have shown an upward trajectory over the years. The recommendations made by practitioners were categorized based on the broad scope of topics covered. We draw comparisons and parallels with related previous research and discuss the technical limitations faced during the study.
Overall, this paper uncovers valuable insights from Stack Overflow and provides practitioners with the current view on industry practices.

Software testing is a necessary aspect of software development. With high expectations placed on software testers and a shortage of qualified professionals, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as a potential solution to improve software testing education. MOOCs provide accessible education and can offer a comprehensive review of software testing principles and procedures, bridging the gap between formal education and industry expectations. A study of software testing MOOCs was conducted to examine key aspects and compare concepts with university curricula and industry expectations. The findings show that a MOOC on average covers more concepts than a single university course. Additionally, MOOCs align well with what the industry expects from software testing practitioners. Therefore, MOOCs can successfully contribute to software testing education and bridge the gap between university curricula and industry expectations.

As software and systems continue to get more complex, software testing is an important field to ensure that software functions properly. Every day information about software testing is being discussed on the internet via blog posts, discussion boards, and more. This information is scattered among many different websites, making it hard to access. To analyze software testing content published on the internet, newsletters curated by members of the field and reflective of industry trends were used. This analysis provides a broad overview of what software testing-related content is being discussed on the internet. Common problems discussed in newsletters include properly maintaining tests, working with and fixing flaky tests, and properly analyzing test results. Javascript and Typescript are the most popular programming languages discussed, while the web is also the most popular platform. When looking at test types, automated tests are frequently discussed, followed by end-to-end tests and unit tests. Common techniques and strategies discussed include API testing, the use of continuous integration, and the use of continuous deployment. Selenium, Cypress, and the Gherkin syntax are the most frequently discussed tools and technologies. Finally, opinionated articles tend to be most common, followed by articles that introduce a technology and articles that explain a concept.

In this study, we try to understand what kind of topics and frameworks are covered by the popular software testing books, and see whether these topics satisfy the industry needs and address the rising trends. To define "popular" software testing books, we formulated three heuristics. The topics of the books are analyzed through LDA topic modelling and manual inspection. LDA results inform us on the dominance of the topics within the whole corpus, while the manual inspection results show how often a topic is addressed. We combine the results of both of the methods to analyse the most noteworthy topics. We found that test automation, test design and planning, coverage analysis were the most frequently and extensively discussed topics in our corpus. We conclude that although the books cover some major topics that are demanded by the industry, there are also areas such as test management and usability testing, which are underrepresented. We also observed that the popular software testing books do not cover the rising software testing trends. While JUnit was the most discussed framework, in general the software testing books do not include practical information for specific frameworks or tools, but rather focus on the tool selection process.

Software testing plays a crucial role in delivering reliable software. Currently, research is ongoing on how software developers and testers acquire this knowledge of software testing to deliver reliable software and what kind of knowledge is being transferred to developers and testers. In an effort to gain more insight into this area, we will focus on answering which software testing topics are being discussed in dedicated software testing courses and software engineering courses in top-ranked universities. Our findings show us that White-box testing, Black-box testing and the discussion of test levels are the most commonly discussed topics in universities.