Testing large complex systems in an agile way of working was a tough transition for systems
having large active legacy and honouring backward compatibility. Transition from manual …

Recently, technical debt investigations became more and more important in the software
development industry. In this paper we show that the same challenges are valid for the …

The cost of software testing is believed to range between 40 and 80% of the total cost of
development, with safety critical systems closer to the high end [S1]. According to NIST [S2] …

• The cost and time of testing is already a major portion of many projects (sometimes
exceeding the costs of development), so there is a strong push to investigate methods like …

Technical debt is the metaphor used to describe the effect of incomplete or immature
software artifacts that bring short-term benefits to projects, but may have to be paid later with …

Software testing is an important phase in the software-development cycle. Well-tested
software that is free of bugs is the goal of the software developer and the expectation of the …

System testing is an important part of software development; however, it is also a big effort
driver. High costs arise while creating, executing and maintaining test cases. This thesis …

Developing software is complex. Software testing helps to reveal bugs and to demonstrate
conformance. And we spend billions of dollars on it. But do we really know what we are …

All software systems, from new developments to legacy systems, suffer from test automation
backlogs, ie, manual tests that stagnate the rate of development and innovation. I argue that …

Test smells are patterns in test code that may indicate poor code quality. Some recent
studies have cast doubt on the accuracy and usefulness of the test smells proposed and …