Irum Ilays¹, Yaser Hafeez^1,*, Nabil Almashfi², Sadia Ali¹, Mamoona Humayun^3,*, Muhammad Aqib¹, Ghadah Alwakid⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.3, pp. 3761-3784, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.053830 - 12 September 2024

Abstract Software testing is a critical phase due to misconceptions about ambiguities in the requirements during specification, which affect the testing process. Therefore, it is difficult to identify all faults in software. As requirement changes continuously, it increases the irrelevancy and redundancy during testing. Due to these challenges; fault detection capability decreases and there arises a need to improve the testing process, which is based on changes in requirements specification. In this research, we have developed a model to resolve testing challenges through requirement prioritization and prediction in an agile-based environment. The research objective is to… More >

Zhenhua Yu¹, Zhengqi Liu¹, Xuya Cong^1,*, Xiaobo Li², Li Yin³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 1-29, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042361 - 30 January 2024

Abstract As one of the most effective techniques for finding software vulnerabilities, fuzzing has become a hot topic in software security. It feeds potentially syntactically or semantically malformed test data to a target program to mine vulnerabilities and crash the system. In recent years, considerable efforts have been dedicated by researchers and practitioners towards improving fuzzing, so there are more and more methods and forms, which make it difficult to have a comprehensive understanding of the technique. This paper conducts a thorough survey of fuzzing, focusing on its general process, classification, common application scenarios, and some More >

Malik Muhammad Ali Shahid¹, Shahida Sulaiman², Mohammed Al-Sarem^3,4, Aqeel Ur Rahman¹, Salman Iqbal¹, Rab Nawaz Bashir¹, Arfat Ahmad Khan^5,6, Momen M. Alrawi⁷, Rashiq R. Marie⁸, Settawit Poochaya^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 6641-6663, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031459 - 28 December 2022

Abstract

Conventionally, the reliability of a web portal is validated with generalized conventional methods, but they fail to provide the desired results. Therefore, we need to include other quality factors that affect reliability such as usability for improving the reliability in addition to the conventional reliability testing. Actually, the primary objectives of web portals are to provide interactive integration of multiple functions confirming diverse requirements in an efficient way. In this paper, we employ testing profiles to measure the reliability through software operational profile, input space profile and usability profile along with qualitative measures of reliability

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Huda Basloom^1,*, Mohamed Dahab¹, Abdullah Saad AL-Ghamdi², Fathy Eassa¹, Ahmed Mohammed Alghamdi³, Seif Haridi⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 4501-4530, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033928 - 31 October 2022

Abstract Recently, researchers have shown increasing interest in combining more than one programming model into systems running on high performance computing systems (HPCs) to achieve exascale by applying parallelism at multiple levels. Combining different programming paradigms, such as Message Passing Interface (MPI), Open Multiple Processing (OpenMP), and Open Accelerators (OpenACC), can increase computation speed and improve performance. During the integration of multiple models, the probability of runtime errors increases, making their detection difficult, especially in the absence of testing techniques that can detect these errors. Numerous studies have been conducted to identify these errors, but no… More >

M. Sangeetha^1,*, S. Malathi²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.3, pp. 1587-1601, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025192 - 25 May 2022

Abstract Software testing is an effective means of verifying software stability and trustworthiness. It is essential in the software development process and needs a huge quantity of resources such as labor, money, and time. Automated software testing can be used to save manual work, shorten testing times, and improve testing performance. Recently, Software Bug Prediction (SBP) models have been developed to improve the software quality assurance (SQA) process through the prediction of bug parts. Advanced deep learning (DL) models can be used to classify faults in software parts. Because hyperparameters have a significant impact on the… More >

Muhammad Abid Jamil^*, Mohamed K. Nour

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 735-747, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028386 - 18 May 2022

Abstract Technical debt (TD) happens when project teams carry out technical decisions in favor of a short-term goal(s) in their projects, whether deliberately or unknowingly. TD must be properly managed to guarantee that its negative implications do not outweigh its advantages. A lot of research has been conducted to show that TD has evolved into a common problem with considerable financial burden. Test technical debt is the technical debt aspect of testing (or test debt). Test debt is a relatively new concept that has piqued the curiosity of the software industry in recent years. In this… More >

Ali Abdullah Hassan^1,*, Salwani Abdullah¹, Kamal Z. Zamli², Rozilawati Razali¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 2057-2077, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026310 - 18 May 2022

Abstract Much of our daily tasks have been computerized by machines and sensors communicating with each other in real-time. There is a reasonable risk that something could go wrong because there are a lot of sensors producing a lot of data. Combinatorial testing (CT) can be used in this case to reduce risks and ensure conformance to specifications. Numerous existing meta-heuristic-based solutions aim to assist the test suite generation for combinatorial testing, also known as t-way testing (where t indicates the interaction strength), viewed as an optimization problem. Much previous research, while helpful, only investigated a small… More >

Manar Ahmed Hamza^1,*, Abdelzahir Abdelmaboud², Souad Larabi-Marie-Sainte³, Haya Mesfer Alshahrani⁴, Mesfer Al Duhayyim⁵, Hamza Awad Ibrahim⁶, Mohammed Rizwanullah¹, Ishfaq Yaseen¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 1951-1965, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024692 - 24 February 2022

Abstract Generally, software testing is considered as a proficient technique to achieve improvement in quality and reliability of the software. But, the quality of test cases has a considerable influence on fault revealing capability of software testing activity. Test Case Prioritization (TCP) remains a challenging issue since prioritizing test cases is unsatisfactory in terms of Average Percentage of Faults Detected (APFD) and time spent upon execution results. TCP is mainly intended to design a collection of test cases that can accomplish early optimization using preferred characteristics. The studies conducted earlier focused on prioritizing the available test… More >

Muhammad Raza Naqvi¹, Muhammad Waseem Iqbal², Muhammad Usman Ashraf³, Shafiq Ahmad⁴, Ahmed T. Soliman⁴, Shahzada Khurram⁵, Muhammad Shafiq^6,*, Jin-Ghoo Choi⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5855-5869, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019188 - 11 October 2021

Abstract Internet-of-Things (IoT) has attained a major share in embedded software development. The new era of specialized intelligent systems requires adaptation of customized software engineering approaches. Currently, software engineering has merged the development phases with the technologies provided by industrial automation. The improvements are still required in testing phase for the software developed to IoT solutions. This research aims to assist in developing the testing strategies for IoT applications, therein ontology has been adopted as a knowledge representation technique to different software engineering processes. The proposed ontological model renders 101 methodology by using Protégé. After completion, More >

Nagwa Reda¹, Abeer Hamdy^2,*, Essam A. Rashed^1,3

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 781-797, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.019669 - 22 September 2021

Abstract Regression testing is an essential quality test technique during the maintenance phase of the software. It is executed to ensure the validity of the software after any modification. As software evolves, the test suite expands and may become too large to be executed entirely within a limited testing budget and/or time. So, to reduce the cost of regression testing, it is mandatory to reduce the size of the test suite by discarding the redundant test cases and selecting the most representative ones that do not compromise the effectiveness of the test suite in terms of… More >