Testing is potentially the best grounded part of software engineering, since it deals with the well defined situation of a fixed program and a test (a finite collection of input v...
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components are built to be used as black boxes that cannot be modified. The specific context in which these COTS components are employed is...
ing Dependencies between Software Configuration Items CARL A. GUNTER University of Pennsylvania icle studies an abstract model of dependencies between software configuration items ...
Achieving software reliability takes many complementary techniques, directed at the process or at the products. This survey summarizes some of the most fruitful ideas. 1 OVERVIEW ...
Abstract—A dependable software system contains two important components, namely, error detection mechanisms and error recovery mechanisms. An error detection mechanism attempts t...