Test Intelligence: How Modern Analyses and Visualizations in Teamscale Support Software Testing

Software development, as well as software testing, of a system spawns lots of different artifacts of that many remain unused in further engineering of the system. In practice, we see a possible reason in the lack of knowledge how these artifacts can be processed to profit the most. This is a problem as additional information can improve software testing by making it more effective and efficient. If unused, as a consequence, the testing process is suboptimal, either slow or expensive and might, in a worse case, also result in a bad overall system quality. In this paper, we give an overview about how modern analyses and visualizations enable the access to processed artifacts that support software testing and make benefits clear to the engineering and management stakeholders of a system. We focus on analyses in the tool Teamscale which is an application for software quality evaluation. For each analysis presented, we state which problem it addresses and in which context it can be used. With this summarized presentation, we equip the reader with valuable analyses that are in the right scope for stakeholders in software testing. We present how test data can be used in a continuous feedback process by showcasing the analysis visualizations. Many of them are already successfully employed in the software engineering process of companies from a variety of industry sectors.