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In industry, software testing is the primary method to verify and validate the functionality, performance, security, usability, and so on, of software-based systems. Test automation has gained increasing attention in industry over the last…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ina K. Schieferdecker

Having a high quality software is essential in software engineering, which requires robust validation and verification processes during testing activities. Manual testing, while effective, can be time consuming and costly, leading to an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Betim Sherifi , Khaled Slhoub , Fitzroy Nembhard

The automation of functional testing in software has allowed developers to continuously check for negative impacts on functionality throughout the iterative phases of development. This is not the case for User eXperience (UX), which has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Pedro M. Fernandes , Manuel Lopes , Rui Prada

Teaching software testing presents difficulties due to its abstract and conceptual nature. The lack of tangible outcomes and limited emphasis on hands-on experience further compound the challenge, often leading to difficulties in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Norman Chen

A view on software testing, taken in a broad sense and considered a important activity is presented. We discuss the methods and techniques for applying tests and the reasons we recognize make it difficult for industry to adopt the advances…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-05 José Marcos Gomes , Luis Alberto Vieira Dias

Vehicle API testing verifies whether the interactions between a vehicle's internal systems and external applications meet expectations, ensuring that users can access and control various vehicle functions and data. However, this task is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Shuai Wang , Yinan Yu , Robert Feldt , Dhasarathy Parthasarathy

Although there are many automated software testing suites, they usually focus on unit, system, and interface testing. However, especially software updates such as new security features have the potential to diminish user experience. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Chidera Biringa , Gokhan Kul

Automated web application testing is a critical component of modern software development, with frameworks like Selenium widely adopted for validating functionality through browser automation. Among the essential aspects of such testing is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Nguyen-Khang Le , Hiep Nguyen , Ngoc-Minh Nguyen , Son T. Luu , Trung Vo , Quan Minh Bui , Shoshin Nomura , Le-Minh Nguyen

Robotics simulation plays an important role in the design, development, and verification and validation of robotic systems. Recent studies have shown that simulation may be used as a cheaper, safer, and more reliable alternative to manual,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Afsoon Afzal , Deborah S. Katz , Claire Le Goues , Christopher S. Timperley

Context. Multiple automated techniques have been proposed and developed for mobile application GUI testing aiming to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality. The effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality are 3 fundamental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Yauhen Leanidavich Arnatovich , Lipo Wang

Software automation has long been a central goal of software engineering, striving for software development that proceeds without human intervention. Recent efforts have leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance software automation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Liyi Cai , Yijie Ren , Yitong Zhang , Jia Li

Automatic evaluation of various text quality criteria produced by data-driven intelligent methods is very common and useful because it is cheap, fast, and usually yields repeatable results. In this paper, we present an attempt to automate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Erion Çano , Ondřej Bojar

Checking software application suitability using automated software tools has become a vital element for most organisations irrespective of whether they produce in-house software or simply customise off-the-shelf software applications for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-05 Rajesh Mathur , Scott Miles , Miao Du

Software testing is a critical element of software quality assurance and represents the ultimate review of specification, design and coding. Software testing is the process of testing the functionality and correctness of software by running…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-01-26 S. S. Riaz Ahamed

Context: Verification and validation (V&V) activities make up 20 to 50 percent of the total development costs of a software system in practice. Test automation is proposed to lower these V&V costs but available research only provides…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Emil Alégroth , Robert Feldt , Pirjo Kolström

Recent changes in standards and regulations, driven by the increasing importance of software systems in meeting societal needs, mandate increased security testing of software systems. Penetration testing has been shown to be a reliable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Charilaos Skandylas , Mikael Asplund

Machine learning has become prevalent across a wide variety of applications. Unfortunately, machine learning has also shown to be susceptible to deception, leading to errors, and even fatal failures. This circumstance calls into question…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Dusica Marijan , Arnaud Gotlieb

Growth of software size, lack of resources to perform regression testing, and failure to detect bugs faster have seen increased reliance on continuous integration and test automation. Even with greater hardware and software resources…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Eduard Enoiu , Mirgita Frasheri

The advancing digitalization of vehicles and automotive systems bears many advantages for creating and enhancing comfort and safety-related systems ranging from drive-by-wire, inclusion of advanced displays, entertainment systems up to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Stefan Marksteiner , Zhendong Ma

Background: Testing IoT software is challenging due to large scale, volume of data and heterogeneity. Testing automation is a much-needed feature in the domain. Aims: The first goal of this research is to explore the requirements and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Neenu Varghese , Roopak Sinha