Component-Based Software Development (CBSD) is becoming the trend for software development by using the existing component. The existing components may be black box in nature. There are many software complexity metrics proposed by various researchers which are based on the source code of the software. But these traditional metrics are not applicable for black box component because source code i...

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce techniques for the selection, minimization, and prioritization of tests for regression testing. The source T from which tests are to be selected is likely derived using a combination of black-box and white-box techniques and used for system or component testing. However, when this system or component is modified, for whatever reason, one might be able...

Component Based Software Development (CBSD) is gaining popularity in recent years. In this way of software development, software components, which are typically black-box components, are intensively reused to construct new systems. To ensure the quality of software systems composed of black-box components, a primary concern is how to ensure the quality of black-box components. Thus, adequate te...

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...

Random testing is a well known concept that requires that each test is selected randomly regardless of the test previously applied. This paper introduces the concept of antirandom testing. In this testing strategy each test applied is chosen such that its total distance from all previous tests is maximum. Two distance measures are de ned. Procedures to construct antirandom sequences are develop...

To efficiently solve safety verification and testing problems for an aspect-oriented system, we use multitape automata to model aspects and propose algorithms for the aspect-oriented system specified by a number of primary labeled transition systems (some of them are black-boxes) and aspects. Our algorithms combine automata manipulations over the aspects and primary systems with black-box testi...

In the editorial published in this journal, Daniels and colleagues argue that his and Sabin’s accountability for reasonableness (A4R) framework should be used to handle ethical issues in the health technology assessment (HTA)-process, especially concerning fairness. In contrast to this suggestion, it is argued that such an approach risks suffering from the irrrelevance or insufficiency they war...

M a y / J u n e 2 0 0 0 I E E E S O F T W A R E 71 This was the situation in a company I worked for some years ago: people were whispering in the corners, discussing explanations and scapegoats—half-hearted attempts to put out the fire. We were rapidly losing money and self-respect, until one manager stepped forward and admitted: “This piece of software is fatal for us. We must completely rebui...