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The mass production of complex software has made it impossible to manually test it for security vulnerabilities. Automated security testing tools come in a variety of flavors, function at various stages of software development, and target…

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Large Language Model (LLM) services such as ChatGPT, DALLE, and Cursor have quickly become essential for society, businesses, and individuals, empowering applications such as chatbots, image generation, and code assistance. The complexity…

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Machine learning models commonly exhibit unexpected failures post-deployment due to either data shifts or uncommon situations in the training environment. Domain experts typically go through the tedious process of inspecting the failure…

We propose to validate experimentally a theory of software certification that proceeds from assessment of confidence in fault-freeness (due to standards) to conservative prediction of failure-free operation.

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Self-adaptive systems (SASs) are capable of adjusting its behavior in response to meaningful changes in the operational con-text and itself. The adaptation needs to be performed automatically through self-managed reactions and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Zhuoqun Yang , Zhi Jin , Zhi Li

The complexity of software in embedded systems has increased significantly over the last years so that software verification now plays an important role in ensuring the overall product quality. In this context, SAT-based bounded model…

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Component-based software development has posed a serious challenge to system verification since externally-obtained components could be a new source of system failures. This issue can not be completely solved by either model-checking or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Gaoyan Xie , Zhe Dang

It is important to be able to establish formal performance bounds for autonomous systems. However, formal verification techniques require a model of the environment in which the system operates; a challenge for autonomous systems,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-11 D. M. Lyons , S. Zahra

Automatic software verification tools help to find hard-to-detect faults in programs checked against specified requirements non-interactively. Besides, they can prove program correctness formally under certain assumptions. These…

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Despite being one of the most basic tasks in software development, debugging is still performed in a mostly manual way, leading to high cost and low performance. To address this problem, researchers have studied promising approaches, such…

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Intensive testing using model-based approaches is the standard way of demonstrating the correctness of automotive software. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art techniques leave a crucial and labor intensive task to the test engineer:…

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The working conditions of large-scale industrial systems are very complex. Once a failure occurs, it will affect industrial production, cause property damage, and even endanger the workers' lives. Therefore, it is important to control the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Bu XuSong , Nie Hao , Zhang Zhan , Zhang Qin

Bug finding tools can find defects in software source code us- ing an automated static analysis. This automation may be able to reduce the time spent for other testing and review activities. For this we need to have a clear understanding of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Stefan Wagner , Jan Jürjens , Claudia Koller , Peter Trischberger

Fault identification and testing has always been the most specific concern in the field of software development. To identify and testify the bug we should be aware of the source of the failure or any unwanted issue. In this paper, we are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Vishal Anand , Ramani S

The growing reliance on computer systems, particularly personal computers (PCs), necessitates heightened reliability to uphold user satisfaction. This research paper presents an in-depth analysis of extensive system telemetry data,…

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For service mobile robots to be most effective, it must be possible for non-experts and even end-users to program them to do new tasks. Regardless of the programming method (e.g., by demonstration or traditional programming), robot task…

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