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Gamification is an emerging technique to enhance motivation and performance in traditionally unengaging tasks like software testing. Previous studies have indicated that gamified systems have the potential to improve software testing…

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Testing plays a crucial role in software development, and it is essential for software engineering students to receive proper testing education. However, motivating students to write tests and use automated testing during software…

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Exploratory testing, known for its flexibility and ability to uncover unexpected issues, often faces challenges in maintaining systematic coverage and producing reproducible results. To address these challenges, we investigate whether…

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Web application pentesting is a crucial component in the offensive cybersecurity area, whose aim is to safeguard web applications and web services as the majority of the web applications are mounted in publicly accessible web environments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 María Olivares-Naya , Jacobo Casado de Gracia , Alfonso Sánchez-Macián

Developers have to write thorough tests for their software in order to find bugs and to prevent regressions. Writing tests, however, is not every developer's favourite occupation, and if a lack of motivation leads to a lack of tests, then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Philipp Straubinger , Gordon Fraser

This paper aims to provide an innovative machine learning-based solution to automate security testing tasks for web applications, ensuring the correct functioning of all components while reducing project maintenance costs. Reinforcement…

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women both in developed and developing countries. More than half of all cancer mobile application concern breast cancer. Gamification is widely used in mobile software applications created for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Guido Giunti , Diego H Giunta , Santiago Hors-Fraile , Minna Isomursu , Diana Karoseviciute

Software testing is a crucial phase in software development, enabling the detection of issues and defects that may arise during the development process. Addressing these issues enhances software applications' quality, reliability, user…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Giacomo Garaccione , Tommaso Fulcini , Paolo Stefanut Bodnarescul , Riccardo Coppola , Luca Ardito

Integration testing is one the important phase in software testing life cycle (STLC). With the fast growth of internet and web services, web-based applications are also growing rapidly and their importance and complexity is also increasing.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-07-16 Imran Akhtar Khan , Roopa Singh

To improve the reliability and efficiency of Web Software, the Testing Team should be creative and innovative. The experience and intuition of Tester also matters a lot and most often the destructive nature of Tester brings reliable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Kamran Ali , Xia Xiaoling

Software testing is an essential knowledge area required by industry for software engineers. However, software engineering students often consider testing less appealing than designing or coding. Consequently, it is difficult to engage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Raquel Blanco , Manuel Trinidad , Maria Jose Suarez-Cabal , Alejandro Calderon , Mercedes Ruiz , Javier Tuya

The complexity of computer games is ever increasing. In this setup, guiding an automated test algorithm to find a solution to solve a testing task in a game's huge interaction space is very challenging. Having a model of a system to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Samira Shirzadehhajimahmood , I. S. W. B. Prasetya , Frank Dignum , Mehdi Dastani

Due to the prevalence of online services in modern society, such as internet banking and social media, it is important for users to have an understanding of basic security measures in order to keep themselves safe online. However, users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Sam Scholefield , Lynsay A. Shepherd

As one of the most popular software applications, a web application is a program, accessible through the web, to dynamically generate content based on user interactions or contextual data, for example, online shopping platforms, social…

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With the ever growing networking capabilities and services offered to users, attack surfaces have been increasing exponentially, additionally, the intricacy of network architectures has increased the complexity of cyber-defenses, to this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Xavier Bellekens , Gayan Jayasekara , Hanan Hindy , Miroslav Bures , David Brosset , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson

This paper investigates the integration and assessment of IntelliGame, a gamification plugin initially designed for Java development, within the realm of JavaScript unit testing. We aim to verify the generalizability of IntelliGame to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Philipp Straubinger , Tommaso Fulcini , Gordon Fraser , Marco Torchiano

Non-robust (fragile) test execution is a commonly reported challenge in GUI-based test automation, despite much research and several proposed solutions. A test script needs to be resilient to (minor) changes in the tested application but,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Michel Nass , Emil Alégroth , Robert Feldt , Maurizio Leotta , Filippo Ricca

As modern games continue growing both in size and complexity, it has become more challenging to ensure that all the relevant content is tested and that any potential issue is properly identified and fixed. Attempting to maximize testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Camilo Gordillo , Joakim Bergdahl , Konrad Tollmar , Linus Gisslén

Web applications are the target of many well known exploits and also a fertile ground for the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Yet, the success of an exploit depends both on the vulnerability in the application source code and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Stanislav Dashevskyi , Daniel Ricardo dos Santos , Fabio Massacci , Antonino Sabetta

Interruptions and context switches resulting from meetings, urgent tasks, emails, and queries from colleagues contribute to productivity losses in developers' daily routines. This is particularly challenging for tasks like software testing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Philipp Straubinger , Gordon Fraser
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