The low cost of resource ownership and flexibility have led users to increasingly port their
applications to the clouds. To fully realize the cost benefits of cloud services, users usually …

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IEEE January/February 2001 IEEE SOFTWARE 81 ultimate system quality. Implementing the …

The evolution of cloud-computing imposes many challenges on performance testing and
requires not only a different approach and methodology of performance evaluation and …

New processing models are being adopted in Big Data engineering to overcome the
limitations of traditional technology. Among them, MapReduce stands out by allowing for the …

The cost of software testing has become a burden for software companies in the era of rapid
release and continuous integration. Our industrial collaborator Ericsson also faces the …

Many decisions taken during software development impact the resulting application
performance. The key decisions whose potential impact is large are usually carefully …

As software evolves, problematic changes can significantly degrade software performance,
ie, introducing performance regression. Performance regression testing is an effective way …

Performance is an important aspect of software quality. In fact, large software systems
failures are often due to performance issues rather than functional bugs. One of the most …

Software testing is an important aspect of the development process, one that has proven to
be a challenge to formally introduce into the typical undergraduate CS curriculum …

Continuous integration and deployment are established paradigms in modern software
engineering. Both intend to ensure the quality of software products and to automate the …