Dear Members,
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I¡¯m a PhD student in Faculty of Information and
Communication Technologies, Swinburne
University of Technology. As a project of my PhD thesis, my supervisorsProfessor John Grundy (jgrundy@...) and Dr. Robert Merkel (robert.merkel@...) and I (tkanij@...) are conducting a study to collect information about the current
practice of performance appraisal of software testers in industry. We also plan
to evaluate a proposed Performance Appraisal Form (PAF) for software testers.
In this study, we hope to get responses from professionals who
manage software testers. The project is approved by Swinburne University Human
Research Ethics Subcommittee.
The study is an
online survey that should take around 40 minutes to complete. No association
between your responses and any identifying details will be retained.?After
the successful completion of the survey we hope to have an idea of the state of
the practice of performance appraisal of software testers, and will publish
these results through peer-reviewed conferences and/or journals.? This will benefit practitioners by informing
them about broader industry practices for appraisal method, as well as
benefiting research in the area to try and design better appraisal methods. The
study will also validate a novel proposed Performance Appraisal Form (PAF) for
testers. The validated PAF may be useful as a basis for appraising performance
of testers in industry, as well as in academic research requiring performance
assessment of testers.
We invite managers of
software testers to participate in the research study. As a manager your
participation in the research study will add deep insight into the available
knowledge on performance appraisal of software testers and will be helpful to
evaluate the proposed performance appraisal form for testers.
If you would like to participate or
have further queries regarding the research study, please email me (tkanij@...).
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Best Regards
Tanjila Kanij
PhD candidate
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology.
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