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ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Reducing wasted development time via continuous testing
Testing is often performed frequently during development to ensure software reliability by catching regression errors quickly. However, stopping frequently to test also wastes tim...
David Saff, Michael D. Ernst
ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Requirements by Contracts allow Automated System Testing
Use-cases and scenarios have been identified as good inputs to generate test cases and oracles at requirement level. Yet to have an automated generation, information is missing f...
Clémentine Nebut, Franck Fleurey, Yves Le T...
ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Test-Driven Development as a Defect-Reduction Practice
Test-driven development is a software development practice that has been used sporadically for decades. With this practice, test cases (preferably automated) are incrementally wri...
Laurie A. Williams, E. Michael Maximilien, Mladen ...
ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A New Software Testing Approach Based on Domain Analysis of Specifications and Programs
Partition testing is a well-known software testing technique. This paper shows that partition testing strategies are relatively ineffective in detecting faults related to small sh...
Ruilian Zhao, Michael R. Lyu, Yinghua Min
ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
DARX - A Framework For The Fault-Tolerant Support Of Agent Software
This paper presents DARX, our framework for building applications that provide adaptive fault tolerance. It relies on the fact that multi-agent platforms constitute a very strong ...
Olivier Marin, Marin Bertier, Pierre Sens
ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Exploiting Symmetries to Test Programs
Symmetries often appear as properties of many artifical settings. In Program Testing, they can be viewed as properties of programs and can be given by the tester to check the cor...
Arnaud Gotlieb
ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Assessing Uncertainty in Reliability of Component-Based Software Systems
Many architecture–based software reliability models were proposed in the past. Regardless of the accuracy of these models, if a considerable uncertainty exists in the estimates ...
Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Sunil Kamavaram
ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Test Adequacy Assessment for UML Design Model Testing
Systematic design testing, in which executable models of behaviors are tested using inputs that exercise scenarios, can help reveal flaws in designs before they are implemented i...
Sudipto Ghosh, Robert B. France, Conrad Braganza, ...
ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Early Warning of Failures through Alarm Analysis - A Case Study in Telecom Voice Mail Systems
-- This paper presents three principles for alarm analysis to develop early warnings of failure. The concepts are illustrated with real data and experience drawn from Comverse Voic...
Dorron Levy, Ram Chillarege
ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Augmenting Simulated Annealing to Build Interaction Test Suites
Component based software development is prone to unexpected interaction faults. The goal is to test as many potential interactions as is feasible within time and budget constraint...
Myra B. Cohen, Charles J. Colbourn, Alan C. H. Lin...