Software testing is aimed to improve the delivered reliability of the users. Delivered reliability is the reliability of using the software after it is delivered to the users. Usually the software consists of many modules. Thus, the delivered reliability is dependent on the user’s operational profile which specifies how the users will use these modules as well as the defect number remaining in ...

Model of a Specific Company's Architecture Concrete Model of a Company Application UML Class Model CORBA IDL Profile A Profile extends UML and provides a consistent way to generate code from a UML model J2EE/EJB Profile Concrete Model of a Company Application EJB code OMG UML Specification Enterprise Architecture Group Maintains Company Architecture Software Developers Create Specific Appliatio...

The authors are performance specialists with experience in software engineering, and contributors to the definition of the performance sub-profile of the UML SPT Profile [6]. Our viewpoint is that the profile should be usable in everyday practice by software developers. We have used it in a dozen examples and have found it largely effective. Our domain is distributed systems for telecom and bus...

The computer-assisted learning is a very modern study area, which can be applied to the learning process. The main objective of this paper is to present a software system for online learning based on the intelligent software agents technologies. The main ideas on which this paper is built are: to any person is associated a learning profile (the idea is based on the existence of multiple intelli...

Software engineering is forecast to be among the fastest growing employment field in the next decades. The purpose of this investigation is two-fold: Firstly, empirical studies on the personality types of software professionals are reviewed. Secondly, this work provides an upto-date personality profile of software engineers according to the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator. r 2002 Elsevier Science L...

In recent years, Profile-Based Optimization (PBO) has become a key technique in program optimization. In PBO, the optimizer uses information gathered during previous program executions to guide the optimization process. Even though PBO has been implemented in many research systems and some software companies, there has been little research on how to make PBO effective in practice. In today’s so...

This study explores the relationship between program slices and faults. The aim is to investigate whether the characteristics of program slices can be used to identify faultprone software components. Slicing metrics and dependence clusters are used to characterise the slicing profile of a software component, then the relationship between the slicing profile of the component and the faults in th...

As the leading standard in model-based software engineering, UML is also being applied in the area of testing. With the UML Testing Profile (UTP) additional model-elements have been defined enabling the specification of test goals, test procedures and test assessments for system components as well as for complete systems. The concepts are based on software-testing concepts as found in JUnit and...

The large amounts of freely available open source software over the Internet are fundamentally changing the traditional paradigms of software development. Efficient categorization of the massive projects for retrieving relevant software is of vital importance for Internet-based software development such as solution searching, best practices learning and so on. Many previous works have been cond...