Software reliability engineering is focused on engineering techniques for developing and
maintaining software systems whose reliability can be quantitatively evaluated. In order to …

Fuzzing is a well-known black-box approach to the security testing of applications. Fuzzing
has many advantages in terms of simplicity and effectiveness over more complex, expensive …

Robustness is the degree to which a certain system or component can operate correctly in
the presence of invalid inputs or stressful environmental conditions. With the increasing …

Web services promote the specification based cooperation and collaboration among
distributed applications in an open environment. To ensure the quality of the services that …

Testing the correctness of services assures the functional quality of service-oriented applica-
tions. A service-oriented application may bind dynamically to its supportive services. For the …

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a popular design paradigm for distributed systems
today but the high adaptivity and complexity of SOA implementations may also introduce …

It is critical to guarantee the reliability of service-oriented applications. This is because they
may employ remote Web Services as components, which may easily become unavailable in …

Abstract Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is widely adopted for building mission-critical
systems, ranging from on-line stores to complex airline management systems. How to build …

As modern society relies on the fault-free operation of complex computing systems, system
fault-tolerance has become an indispensable requirement. Therefore, we need mechanisms …