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Software testing is a mandatory activity in any serious software development process, as bugs are a reality in software development. This raises the question of quality: good tests are effective in finding bugs, but until a test case…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Daniel Lucrédio , Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi , Eduardo Santana de Almeida , Iftekhar Ahmed

Testing is an indispensable part of software development. However, a career in software testing is reported to be unpopular among students in computer science and related areas. This can potentially create a shortage of testers in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Ronnie de Souza Santos , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Cleyton Magalhaes , Rodrigo Souza

The test pyramid is a conceptual model that describes how quality checks can be organized to ensure coverage of all components of a system, at all scales. Originally conceived to help aerospace engineers plan tests to determine how material…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Nicole Radziwill , Graham Freeman

Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineers are responsible for assessing a product during every phase of the software development process to ensure that the outcomes of each phase and the final product possess the desired qualities. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Roselane Silva Farias , Iftekhar Ahmed , Eduardo Santana de Almeida

Software testing is a complex, intellectual activity based (at least) on analysis, reasoning, decision making, abstraction and collaboration performed in a highly demanding environment. Naturally, it uses and allocates multiple cognitive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Eduard Enoiu , Gerald Tukseferi , Robert Feldt

Context: Research software is essential for developing advanced tools and models to solve complex research problems and drive innovation across domains. Therefore, it is essential to ensure its correctness. Software testing plays a vital…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Nasir U. Eisty , Upulee Kanewala , Jeffrey C. Carver

Remote and hybrid work have transformed how software development teams organize, communicate, and assure quality. This study investigates how regression testing is performed and experienced under these distributed conditions. Using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Juliane Pascoal , Cleytton Magalhaes , Ronnie de Souza Santos

Video-game projects are notorious for having day-one bugs, no matter how big their budget or team size. The quality of a game is essential for its success. This quality could be assessed and ensured through testing. However, to the best of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Cristiano Politowski , Fabio Petrillo , Yann-Gäel Guéhéneuc

Testing plays an important role in securing the success of a software development project. Prior studies have demonstrated beneficial effects of applying acceptance testing within a Behavioural-Driven Development method. In this research,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Marina Filipovic , Fabian Gilson

Testing is a vital part of software development, and spreadsheets are like any other software in this respect. This paper discusses the testing of spreadsheets in the light of one practitioner's experience. It considers the concept of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-07-22 Louise Pryor

Software testing is aimed to improve the delivered reliability of the users. Delivered reliability is the reliability of using the software after it is delivered to the users. Usually the software consists of many modules. Thus, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Ping Cao , Zhao Dong , Ke Liu , Kai-Yuan Cai

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making a significant impact in multiple areas like medical, military, industrial, domestic, law, arts as AI is capable to perform several roles such as managing smart factories, driving autonomous vehicles,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Zubair Khaliq , Sheikh Umar Farooq , Dawood Ashraf Khan

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

\textit{Background:} The use of large language models in software testing is growing fast as they support numerous tasks, from test case generation to automation, and documentation. However, their adoption often relies on informal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Maria Deolinda Santana , Cleyton Magalhaes , Ronnie de Souza Santos

A unit test is a method for verifying the accuracy and the proper functioning of a portion of a program. This work consists to study the relation and the approaches to test Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) programs and to propose a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-12-21 Martin Levesque

Quality assurance makes sure the project will be completed based on the previously approved specifications, standards and functionality. It is required without defects and possible problems. It monitors and tries to progress the development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-14 Nayyar Iqbal , M. Rizwan Jameel Qureshi

Software testing has progressed toward intelligent automation, yet current AI-based test generators still suffer from static, single-shot outputs that frequently produce invalid, redundant, or non-executable tests due to the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Saba Naqvi , Mohammad Baqar , Nawaz Ali Mohammad

Software security has been an important research topic over the years. The community has proposed processes and tools for secure software development and security analysis. However, a significant number of vulnerabilities remains in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Steven Arzt , Linda Schreiber , Dominik Appelt

It is well known that the software process in place impacts the quality of the resulting product. However, the specific way in which this effect occurs is still mostly unknown and reported through anecdotes. To gather a better understanding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Rasul Tumyrkin , Manuel Mazzara , Mohammad Kassab , Giancarlo Succi , JooYoung Lee

With the advent of WWW and outburst in technology and software development, testing the software became a major concern. Due to the importance of the testing phase in a software development life cycle, testing has been divided into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-22 A. Isabella , Emi Retna