Localizing the cause(s) of an observable error lies at the heart of program debugging. Fault localization often proceeds by comparing the failing program run with some “successf...
The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....
The size of a test-suite has a direct impact on the costs and the effort of software testing. Especially during regression testing, when software is re-tested after some modifica...
Analysis and design of programs by using tools has emerged to a standard technique in object-oriented software engineering. Many of these tools claim to implement methods accordin...
Software performance based on performance models can be applied at early phases of the software development cycle to characterize the quantitative behavior of software systems. We...