The fulfillment of the quality and reliability requirements of complex software systems necessitate that the software undergo some specific verification and validation procedures [1]-[3]. An integral part of both activities is intensive testing. The importance of testing manifests itself especially in the case of safety-critical computer systems [3], where the primary criterion is safe operatio...

Software development teams that use agile methodologies are increasingly adopting the test-driven development practice (TDD). TDD allows to produce software by iterative and incremental work cycle, and with a strict control over the process, favouring an early detection of bugs. However, when applied to large and complex systems, TDD benefits are not so obvious: manually locating and fixing bug...

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Today, software availability as well as adaptability has a strong impact on application development. Together with the success of the Internet technology, it is often necessary to offer a web-based software solution. For Java development, J2EE builds a bridge from traditional towards web application development. Java Server Pages and Servlets allow the implementation of web sites with dynamic c...

This paper proposes carrying out test-oriented risk analyses during the software and system development life cycle in order both to improve the software and to inform test planning. It offers an overview of risk analysis and explains where in the life cycle it would be useful to apply it.

PURPOSE We describe a pediatric visual field (VF) test based on a computer game where software and hardware combine to provide an enjoyable test experience. METHODS The test software consists of a platform-based computer game presented to the central VF. A storyline was created around the game as was a structure surrounding the computer monitor to enhance patients' experience. The patient is ...

In this paper we give an introduction to methods and tools for testing communication protocols and distributed systems. In this context, we try to answer the following questions: Why are we testing? What are we testing? Against what are we Ž testing?... We present the different approaches of test automation and explain the industrial point of view automatic test . Ž . execution and the research...

This paper discusses the development of and proposed enhancements to a colorimetric test for the detection of uranium in biological samples such as urine. The goal of this work is to develop a technique for the detection of uranium that could: 1) be conducted rapidly and accurately; 2) would not require extensive sample preparation; 3) would not require expensive or complicated instrumentation;...

A Danish speech intelligibility test for assessing the speech recognition threshold in noise (SRT(N)) has been developed. The test consists of 180 sentences distributed in 18 phonetically balanced lists. The sentences are based on an open word-set and represent everyday language. The sentences were equalized with respect to intelligibility to ensure uniform SRT(N) assessments with all lists. In...