The scientific groundwork for excellent testing, anyway, has already been done-- but not in the realm of computer science. This is because computer scientists a

The scientific groundwork for excellent testing, anyway, has already been done-- but not in the realm of computer science. This is because computer scientists are singularly ill equipped to study what computer scientists do. In other words, if you want to understand testing, you have to watch testers at work, and that is social science research. CS does not take social science seriously. An example of such research done well can be found in Exploring Science, by Klahr. The author and his colleagues look very closely at how people interact with a system and experiment with it, leading to wonderful insights about testing processes. I've incorporated those lessons into my classes on software testing, for instance.