Test case prioritization is a technique to improve software testing. Although many works have investigated test case prioritization, they focus on white box testing or regression testing. However, software testing is often outsourced to a software testing company that employs black box testing. Herein a framework is proposed to prioritize test cases for black box testing on a new product using ...

Automatic program evaluation is a way to assess source program files. These techniques are used in learning management environments, programming exams and contest systems. However, use of automated program evaluation encounters problems: some evaluations are not clear for the students and the system messages do not show reasons for lost points. The author proposes several ideas for possible imp...

In this paper, approaches to assess the reliability of the COTS software for a given or specified operation profile have been analyzed using the proposed methods for White box and Black box approaches. In the black box approach the fragile point analysis is used to assess the reliability of the software, for a given operational profile, using the functional or design specification of the software.

Historically, software testing received relatively less attention compared with other activities (e.g. systems analysis and design) of the software life cycle in an undergraduate computer science/information systems curriculum. Nevertheless, it is a common and important technique used to detect errors in software. This paper reports our recent experience of using a new approach to teaching soft...

The global testing problem studied in this paper is to seek a definite answer to whether a system of concurrent black-boxes has an observable behavior in a given finite (but could be huge) set Bad. We introduce a novel approach to solve the problem that does not require integration testing. Instead, in our approach, the global testing problem is reduced to testing individual black-boxes in the ...

During the verification phase in component-oriented approaches to (embedded) system development component tests are generally followed by system tests, often using different testing specifications and environments. Thus, when integrating components in the overall system, the actual implementation platform may differ from the development platform, leading to a deviation in the component behavior...

Many different testing techniques have been proposed by researchers, but essentially only two main testing philosophies exist, black box and white box. There exists a number of different testing methods for structural testing of procedural languages, however, the features of object-oriented languages are not addressed by such techniques. This dissertation explores a new structural testing techn...

Development of a software system from existing components can surely have various benefits, but can also entail a series of problems. One type of problems is caused by a limited exchange of information between the developer and user of a component, i.e. the developer of a componentbased system. A limited exchange of information cannot only require the testing by the user but it can also complic...

SPL testing has been considered a challenging task, mainly due to the diversity of products that might be generated from an SPL. To deal with this problem, techniques for specifying and deriving product specific functional test cases have been proposed. However, there is little empirical evidence of the benefits and drawbacks of these techniques. To provide this kind of evidence, in a previous ...