Testing automation tools enable developers and/or testers to easily automate the entire
process of testing in software development. Nevertheless, adopting automated testing is not …

In an age of rapid development in increasingly complex environments, automation is the
only real hope for achieving any acceptable level of test coverage. Yet, even with all of the …

To better understand the challenges encountered by users and developers of automatic
software testing, we have performed an empirical investigation of a discussion board used …

Mention “test case”, and it conjures up the image of a script or a program that exercises a
system under test. In industrial practice, however, test cases often start out as steps …

Automating the execution of tests is becoming more and more popular as the need to
improve software quality amidst increasing system complexity becomes ever stronger. The …

There is a documented gap between academic and practitioner views on software testing.
This paper tries to close the gap by investigating both views regarding the benefits and limits …

Automated test execution is one of the more popular and available strategies to minimize the
cost for software testing, and is also becoming one of the central concepts in modern …

Development of large and complex software intensive systems with continuous builds
typically generates large volumes of information with complex patterns and relations …

Software testing is expensive for the industry, and always constrained by time and effort.
Although there is a multitude of test techniques, there are currently no scientifically based …

During the software development life cycle, testing is highly needed to assure the quality of
the software process and product. For many years, researchers and practitioners came-up …