More and more software projects are using COTS (Commercialoff-the-shelf) components. Using COTS components brings both advantages and risks. To manage some risks in using COTS com...
Exploratory testing (ET) – simultaneous learning, test design, and test execution – is an applied practice in industry but lacks research. We present the current knowledge of ...
Distributed systems comprised of autonomous self-interested entities require some sort of control mechanism to ensure the predictability of the interactions that drive them. This ...
Felipe Rech Meneguzzi, Simon Miles, Michael Luck, ...
—Bug fixing accounts for a large amount of the software maintenance resources. Generally, bugs are reported, fixed, verified and closed. However, in some cases bugs have to be...
—In software development, every change induces a risk. What happens if code changes again and again in some period of time? In an empirical study on Windows Vista, we found that ...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmer...