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The popularity of Android OS has made it an appealing target to malware developers. To evade detection, including by ML-based techniques, attackers invest in creating malware that closely resemble legitimate apps. In this paper, we propose…

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Continuous testing during development is a well-established technique for software-quality assurance. Continuous model checking from revision to revision is not yet established as a standard practice, because the enormous resource…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-05-30 Dirk Beyer , Stefan Löwe , Evgeny Novikov , Andreas Stahlbauer , Philipp Wendler

In this article, we describe the regression test process to test and verify the changes made on software. A developed technique use the automation test based on decision tree and test selection process in order to reduce the testing cost is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-28 Seifedine Kadry

Software quality assurance has been a heated topic for several decades. If factors that influence software quality can be identified, they may provide more insight for better software development management. More precise quality assurance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Jie Xu , Danny Ho , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Accurate methods of assessing the performance of quantum gates are extremely important. Quantum process tomography and randomized benchmarking are the current favored methods. Quantum process tomography gives detailed information, but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Austin G. Fowler , D. Sank , J. Kelly , R. Barends , John M. Martinis

Application security is an essential part of developing modern software, as lots of attacks depend on vulnerabilities in software. The number of attacks is increasing globally due to technological advancements. Companies must include…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mohamed Mjd Alhafi , Mohammad Hammade , Khloud Al Jallad

Version Control Systems (VCS) are frequently used to support development of large-scale software projects. A typical VCS repository of a large project can contain various intertwined branches consisting of a large number of commits. If some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Jaroslav Bendik , Nikola Benes , Ivana Cerna

Software vulnerabilities continue to undermine the reliability and security of modern systems, particularly as software complexity outpaces the capabilities of traditional detection methods. This study introduces a genetic algorithm-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yanusha Mehendran , Maolin Tang , Yi Lu

Context: Performance regressions negatively impact execution time and memory usage of software systems. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic methods to evaluate the effectiveness of performance test suites. Performance mutation…

Real-world software applications must constantly evolve to remain relevant. This evolution occurs when developing new applications or adapting existing ones to meet new requirements, make corrections, or incorporate future functionality.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Sebastian Hönel

Linear regression is a fundamental and primitive problem in supervised machine learning, with applications ranging from epidemiology to finance. In this work, we propose methods for speeding up distributed linear regression. We do so by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Neophytos Charalambides , Hessam Mahdavifar , Mert Pilanci , Alfred O. Hero

Lean processes focus on doing only necessery things in an efficient way. Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning offer new opportunities to optimizing processes. The presented approach demonstrates an improvement of the test process by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Alexander Poth , Quirin Beck , Andreas Riel

Performance regressions in large-scale software systems can lead to substantial resource inefficiencies, making their early detection critical. Frequent benchmarking is essential for identifying these regressions and maintaining…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Nils Japke , Sebastian Koch , Helmut Lukasczyk , David Bermbach

Performance is a volatile property of a software system and frequent performance profiling is required to keep the knowledge about a software system's performance behavior up to date. Repeating all performance measurements after every…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Sebastian Böhm , Florian Sattler , Norbert Siegmund , Sven Apel

In a continuous deployment setting, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) applications frequently receive updated releases, each of which can cause a performance regression. While continuous benchmarking, i.e., comparing benchmark results of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tim C. Rese , Nils Japke , Sebastian Koch , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Today's software quality assurance techniques are often applied in isolation. Consequently, synergies resulting from systematically integrating different quality assurance activities are often not exploited. Such combinations promise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Frank Elberzhager , Alla Rosbach , Jürgen Münch , Robert Eschbach

During the software evolution, existing features may be adversely affected by new changes, which is well known as regression errors. Maintaining a high-quality test suite is helpful to prevent regression errors, whereas it heavily depends…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Tao Ji , Liqian Chen , Xiaoguang Mao , Xin Yi , Jiahong Jiang

Software defects rediscovered by a large number of customers affect various stakeholders and may: 1) hint at gaps in a software manufacturer's Quality Assurance (QA) processes, 2) lead to an over-load of a software manufacturer's support…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-07-21 Andriy V. Miranskyy , Matthew Davison , Mark Reesor

Testability is the probability whether tests will detect a fault, given that a fault in the program exists. How efficiently the faults will be uncovered depends upon the testability of the software. Various researchers have proposed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Sujata Khatri , R. S. Chhillar , V. B. Singh

In recent years, defect prediction has received a great deal of attention in the empirical software engineering world. Predicting software defects before the maintenance phase is very important not only to decrease the maintenance costs but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Ahmet Okutan