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Machine learning techniques for software vulnerability prediction: a comparative study
Software vulnerabilities represent a major cause of security problems. Various vulnerability discovery models (VDMs) attempt to model the rate at which the vulnerabilities are discovered in a software. Althoug...
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Open AccessSoftware test results exploration and visualization with continuous integration and nightly testing
Software testing is key for quality assurance of embedded systems. However, with increased development pace, the amount of test results data risks growing to a level where exploration and visualization of the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Specification of Passive Test Cases Using an Improved T-EARS Language
Test cases that only observe the system under test can improve parallelism and detection of faults occurring due to unanticipated feature interactions. Traditionally, such passive test cases have been challenging...
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Open AccessAn evaluation of Monte Carlo-based hyper-heuristic for interaction testing of industrial embedded software applications
Hyper-heuristic is a new methodology for the adaptive hybridization of meta-heuristic algorithms to derive a general algorithm for solving optimization problems. This work focuses on the selection type of hype...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Tool-Supported Approach for Building the Architecture and Roadmap in MegaM@Rt2 Project
MegaM@Rt2 is a large European project dedicated to the provisioning of a model-based methodology and supporting tooling for system engineering at a wide scale. It notably targets the continuous development and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MegaM@Rt2 Project: Mega-Modelling at Runtime - Intermediate Results and Research Challenges
MegaM@Rt2 Project is a major European effort towards the model-driven engineering of complex Cyber-Physical systems combined with runtime analysis. Both areas are dealt within the same methodology to enjoy the mu...
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Open AccessSimilarity-based prioritization of test case automation
The importance of efficient software testing procedures is driven by an ever increasing system complexity as well as global competition. In the particular case of manual test cases at the system integration le...
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10 Years of research on debugging concurrent and multicore software: a systematic map** study
Debugging—the process of identifying, localizing and fixing bugs—is a key activity in software development . Due to issues such as non-determinism and difficulties of reproducing failures, debugging concurrent...
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Towards Benchmarking Feature Subset Selection Methods for Software Fault Prediction
Despite the general acceptance that software engineering datasets often contain noisy, irrelevant or redundant variables, very few benchmark studies of feature subset selection (FSS) methods on real-life data ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Earlier Fault Detection by Value-Driven Prioritization of Test Cases Using Fuzzy TOPSIS
Software testing in industrial projects typically requires large test suites. Executing them is commonly expensive in terms of effort and wall-clock time. Indiscriminately executing all available test cases le...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Using Dependency Knowledge at Integration Testing
In software system development, testing can take considerable time and resources, and there are numerous examples in the literature of how to improve the testing process. In particular, methods for selection a...
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An experiment on the effectiveness and efficiency of exploratory testing
The exploratory testing (ET) approach is commonly applied in industry, but lacks scientific research. The scientific community needs quantitative results on the performance of ET taken from realistic experimen...
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Prediction of faults-slip-through in large software projects: an empirical evaluation
A large percentage of the cost of rework can be avoided by finding more faults earlier in a software test process. Therefore, determination of which software test phases to focus improvement work on has consi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Search-Based Testing for Embedded Telecom Software with Complex Input Structures
In this paper, we discuss the application of search-based software testing techniques for unit level testing of a real-world telecommunication middleware at Ericsson. Our current implementation analyzes the ex...
