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Machine learning may enable the automated generation of test oracles. We have characterized emerging research in this area through a systematic literature review examining oracle types, researcher goals, the ML techniques applied, how the…

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Software metric plays a vital role in quantitative assessment of any specific software development methodology and its impact on the maintenance of software. It can also be used to indicate the degree of interdependence among the components…

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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

Testing is widely recognized as an important stage of the software development lifecycle. Effective software testing can provide benefits such as bug finding, preventing regressions, and documentation. In terms of documentation, unit tests…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Elizabeth Dinella , Gabriel Ryan , Todd Mytkowicz , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

People demand for software quality is growing increasingly, thus different scales for the software are growing fast to handle the quality of software. The software complexity metric is one of the measurements that use some of the internal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-21 Yahya Tashtoush , Mohammed Al-Maolegi , Bassam Arkok

We are experiencing an explosion in the amount of sensors measuring our activities and the world around us. These sensors are spread throughout the built environment and can help us perform state estimation and control of related systems,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Matthew A. Wright , Roberto Horowitz

Bell-state projections serve as a fundamental basis for most quantum communication and computing protocols today. However, with current Bell-state measurement schemes based on linear optics, only two of four Bell states can be identified,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Matthias J. Bayerbach , Simone E. D'Aurelio , Peter van Loock , Stefanie Barz

Mainstream software applications and tools are the configurable platforms with an enormous number of parameters along with their values. Certain settings and possible interactions between these parameters may harden (or soften) the security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shuvalaxmi Dass , Akbar Siami Namin

Quantum enhancements of precision in metrology can be compromised by system imperfections. These may be mitigated by appropriate optimization of the input state to render it robust, at the expense of making the state difficult to prepare.…

The efficient and reliable certification of quantum states is essential for various quantum information processing tasks as well as for the general progress on the implementation of quantum technologies. In the last few years several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Xiao-Dong Yu , Jiangwei Shang , Otfried Gühne

The accurate characterization of quantum systems is essential for the advancement of quantum technologies. In particular, certifying convex functions of quantum states plays a central role in many applications. We present a certification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Leonardo Zambrano , Teodor Parella-Dilmé , Antonio Acín , Donato Farina

This paper explores the problem of quantum measurement complexity. In computability theory, the complexity of a problem is determined by how long it takes an effective algorithm to solve it. This complexity may be compared to the difficulty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Subhash Kak

Context: Scientific open-source software (SciOSS) plays a foundational role in research and engineering, yet its long-term sustainability has often been overlooked and remains a significant concern. Objective: This study investigates the…

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Blockchain technology ensures secure and trustworthy data flow between multiple participants on the chain, but interoperability of on-chain and off-chain data has always been a difficult problem that needs to be solved. To solve the problem…

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The test suite is essential for fault detection during software development. First-order mutation coverage is an accurate metric to quantify the quality of the test suite. However, it is computationally expensive. Hence, the adoption of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Ali Parsai , Alessandro Murgia , Serge Demeyer

In this work we explore the accuracy of quantum error correction depending of the order of the implemented syndrome measurements. CSS codes require bit-flip and phase flip-syndromes be measured separately. To comply with fault tolerant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Yaakov S. Weinstein

Test Coverage criteria are an essential concept for test engineers when generating the test cases from a System Under Test model. They are routinely used in test case generation for user interfaces, middleware, and back-end system parts for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Vaclav Rechtberger , Miroslav Bures , Bestoun S. Ahmed

High-quality data is key to interpretable and trustworthy data analytics and the basis for meaningful data-driven decisions. In practical scenarios, data quality is typically associated with data preprocessing, profiling, and cleansing for…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Lisa Ehrlinger , Elisa Rusz , Wolfram Wöß

As quantum computing continues to emerge, ensuring the quality of quantum programs has become increasingly critical. Quantum program testing has emerged as a prominent research area within the scope of quantum software engineering. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiaming Ye , Xiongfei Wu , Shangzhou Xia , Fuyuan Zhang , Jianjun Zhao

Audio-based equipment condition monitoring suffers from a lack of standardized methodologies for algorithm selection, hindering reproducible research. This paper addresses this gap by introducing a comprehensive framework for the systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Srijesh Pillai , Yodhin Agarwal , Zaheeruddin Ahmed