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Testing has become an indispensable activity of software development, yet writing good and relevant tests remains a quite challenging task. One well-known problem is that it often is impossible or unrealistic to test for every outcome, as…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Dimitri Racordon , Didier Buchs

Utilizing third party software components in the development of new systems became somewhat unfavourable approach among many organizations nowadays. This reluctance is primarily built due to the lack of support to verify the quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Basem Y. Alkazemi

The experimental evaluation of the methods and concepts covered in software engineering has been increasingly valued. This value indicates the constant search for new forms of assessment and validation of the results obtained in Software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-30 T. F. M. Sirqueira , M. A. Miguel , H. L. O. Dalpra , M. A. P. Araujo , J. M. N. David

Compositionality supports the manipulation of large systems by working on their components. For model-based testing, this means that large systems can be tested by modelling and testing their components: passing tests for all components…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Gijs van Cuyck , Lars van Arragon , Jan Tretmans

Systematic testing of object-oriented software turned out to be much more complex than testing conventional software. Especially the highly incremental and iterative development cycle demands both many more changes and partially implemented…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mario Winter

The software is changing rapidly with the invention of advanced technologies and methodologies. The ability to rapidly and successfully upgrade software in response to changing business requirements is more vital than ever. For the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Gokul Yenduri , Thippa Reddy Gadekallu

Engineering software systems is a multidisciplinary activity, whereby a number of artifacts must be created - and maintained - synchronously. In this paper we investigate whether production code and the accompanying tests co-evolve by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-25 Andy Zaidman , Bart Van Rompaey , Serge Demeyer , Arie van Deursen

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

In software testing, a set of test cases is constructed according to some predefined selection criteria. The software is then examined against these test cases. Three interesting observations have been made on the current artifacts of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-02 T. Y. Chen , S. C. Cheung , S. M. Yiu

This research paper aims to find, analyze and understand code patterns in any software system and measure its quality by defining standards and proposing a formula for the same. Every code that is written can be divided into different code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Jitesh Dundas

Measuring and analyzing the performance of software has reached a high complexity, caused by more advanced processor designs and the intricate interaction between user programs, the operating system, and the processor's microarchitecture.…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Martin Becker , Samarjit Chakraborty

Can one estimate the number of remaining faults in a software system? A credible estimation technique would be immensely useful to project managers as well as customers. It would also be of theoretical interest, as a general law of software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Carlo A. Furia , Bertrand Meyer , Manuel Oriol , Andrey Tikhomirov , Yi Wei

Large language models and deep learning models designed for code intelligence have revolutionized the software engineering field due to their ability to perform various code-related tasks. These models can process source code and software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ali Asgari , Milan de Koning , Pouria Derakhshanfar , Annibale Panichella

Context: Software process improvement (SPI) is known as a key for being successfull in software development. Measuring quality and performance is of high importance in agile software development as agile approaches focussing strongly on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Kevin Phong Pham , Michael Neumann

In today's world, we need to ensure that AI systems are fair and unbiased. Our study looked at tools designed to test the fairness of software to see if they are practical and easy for software developers to use. We found that while some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Thanh Nguyen , Luiz Fernando de Lima , Maria Teresa Badassarre , Ronnie de Souza Santos

Robotic systems are complex and safety-critical software systems. As such, they need to be tested thoroughly. Unfortunately, robot software is intrinsically hard to test compared to traditional software, mainly since the software needs to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Nils Chur , Thiago Santos de Moura , Argentina Ortega , Sven Peldszus , Thorsten Berger , Nico Hochgeschwender , Yannic Noller

Software testing ensures that a system functions correctly, meets specified requirements, and maintains high quality. As artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technologies become integral to software systems, testing has evolved…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ronnie de Souza Santos , Matheus de Morais Leca , Reydne Santos , Cleyton Magalhaes

The idea of automatizing the assessment of objectoriented design is not new. Different approaches define and apply their own quality models, which are composed of single metrics or combinations thereof, to operationalize software design.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Johannes Bräuer

A major challenge in testing software product lines is efficiency. In particular, testing a product line should take less effort than testing each and every product individually. We address this issue in the context of input-output…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Harsh Beohar , Mohammad Reza Mousavi

Software testing is the important phase of software development process. But, this phase can be easily missed by software developers because of their limited time to complete the project. Since, software developers finish their software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-02-11 Mrs. R. Jeevarathinam , Dr. Antony Selvadoss Thanamani