Real world software systems change continuously to meet new demands. Most programming languages and development environments, however, are more concerned with limiting the effects...
A test oracle is a mechanism that is used during testing to determine whether a software component behaves correctly or not. The test oracle problem is widely acknowledged in the ...
Rakesh Shukla, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Stroop...
Maintenance costs make up the bulk of the total life cycle costs of a software system. Besides organizational issues such as knowledge management and turnover, the longterm mainte...
Florian Deissenboeck, Markus Pizka, Tilman Seifert
Residual defects is one of the most important factors that allow one to decide if a piece of software is ready to be released. In theory, one can find all the defects and count th...
In software testing, it is often desirable to find test inputs that exercise specific program features. To find these inputs by hand is extremely time-consuming, especially whe...
Christoph C. Michael, Gary McGraw, Michael Schatz,...