The embedded systems domain has grown exponentially over the past years. The industry
is forced by the market to rapidly improve and release new products to beat the competition …

The quality of software systems is an important aspect, especially for embedded systems,
thus strategies and actions for analyzing the trade-off between various quality attributes …

The quality of the test suites and the constituent test cases significantly impacts confidence
in software testing. While research has identified several quality attributes of test cases and …

Despite the importance of software qualities, they are not well understood, especially in the
context of the interrelationships between qualities. A number of systematic mapping studies …

Architectural smells zijn een beruchte schadelijke vorm van ATD die verwijst naar
schendingen van bekende ontwerpprincipes die resulteren in ongewenste …

Objective: This thesis aims to identify and synthesize the knowledge in test artifact quality
from both academia and industry. Hence, our objectives are:(1) To understand practitioners' …

Software for embedded systems has strict requirements on stability; therefore, software
updates are commonly avoided. Combined with common limitations and challenges of …

The issue of quality of industrial application software has been widely concerned, so there is
a clear need for a common set of characteristic for assessing available practices. However …