Mapping Gaps between Academic Resources and Industrial Works in Software Testing

In the industry, software testing is a significant and expensive software engineering process. Numerous studies reveal that many practitioners in the industry continue to cite difficulties with their software testing tasks despite various efforts given by the research community over the past few decades. There has been very little industry-academic cooperation. The goal of this research is to bring the community's attention to the critical problem of software testing's mapping the gap between academic resources and industrial concerns. This work was carried out through an interview process with industrial practitioners to clarify and precisely identify what the industry expects from the academia research in relations to the software testing knowledge, skills, and practices. The study's findings showed that there are divergent academic and industry priority areas in relation to software quality and testing.