The field reject ratio, the fraction of defective devices that pass the acceptance test, is a measure of the quality of the tested product. Although the assessment of quality is important, a n accurate measurement of the field reject ratio of tested VLSI chips is often not feasible. We show that the known methods of field reject ratio prediction a re not accurate since they fail to realisticall...

Testing is frequently reported as a crucial stage in the software development process. With traditional approaches acceptance testing is the last stage of the process before release to customer. Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) promotes the role of an expert customer in defining tests and uses tool support to automate and execute these tests. Here the challenge is to support such an ex...

We present results of a case study looking at how domain knowledge is communicated to developers using executable acceptance test driven development at a large software development company. We collected and analyzed qualitative data on a large software development team's testing practices and their use of a custom-built executable acceptance testing tool. Our findings suggest that executable ac...

Understanding how a user interacts with a system is important if the goal is to deliver a product that meets the user's needs. Use cases constitute a primary source of requirements in a user-centered perspective and are often utilized to derive acceptance tests. Given such a critical role in requirements engineering, we introduce a novel set of testing criteria based on the use case specificati...

By using the test-driven development practice of the Extreme Programming methodology, programmers write extensive automated unit and acceptance tests. This paper outlines an approach for utilizing the results of these automated tests to estimate software system reliability and for providing feedback to developers on the quality of their test cases. Our initial reliability estimation and feedbac...

Aptitude tests analyse the aptitude of persons for studying at a specific school or university as well as for working within a specific company. Due to the recent technology advances, web-based solutions are increasingly used for the implementation of aptitude tests. These web-based aptitude tests can be utilised for rather standardized test methods, testing a large amount of users. Based on th...

Objective: The aim of this study was performed to determine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on psychological flexibility in obese women in Isfahan, Iran. Materials and Methods: This was a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test trial with follow-up. The study population was all of the obese women in Isfahan in 2014 (BMI≥30).the sample of study was selected by conveni...