Software testing has often to be done under severe pressure due to limited resources and a
challenging time schedule facing the demand to assure the fulfillment of the software …

In testing a software application, a primary concern is how to effectively plan the assignment
of resources available for testing to the software components so as to achieve a target goal …

Microservices are gaining popularity as an architectural paradigm for service-oriented
applications, especially suited for highly dynamic contexts requiring loosely-coupled …

Context: In the industry of large-scale mission-critical systems, software is a pivotal asset
and a key business driver. Production and maintenance costs of systems in domains like …

Software reliability growth models support the prediction/assessment of product quality,
release time, and testing/debugging cost. Several software reliability growth model …

Testing resource allocation is the problem of planning the assignment of resources to testing
activities of software components so as to achieve a target goal under given constraints …

Assessing reliability of software programs during validation is a challenging task for
engineers. The assessment is not only required to be unbiased, but it needs to provide tight …

The practice of defect analysis is recognized as an essential task for software process
measurement, yet its effective application in the industrial development of large‐scale …

Simulation represents a powerful technique for the analysis of dependability and
performance aspects of distributed systems. For large-scale critical systems, simulation …

A relevant objective of software reliability assessment is to get unbiased estimates with an
acceptable trade-off between the number of tests required and the variance of the estimate …