Advances in computers. Volume 99 / edited by Atif Memon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Memon, Atif, author.

Contributor:

Memon, Atif, editor.

Series:

Advances in computers ; 0065-2458 v. 99 (OCoLC)1461174

Advances in computers, 0065-2458 ; v. 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic data processing.

Computers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Waltham, MA : Elsevier Science, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The 99th volume is the first in a mini-series of volumes based on the theme "Advances in Software Testing." The need for such a thematic mini-series came up when I was teaching my graduate class "Fundamentals of Software Testing,” in which students were asked to study and report on recent (years 2010–2015) advances in various topics surrounding software testing. They failed to find up-to-date survey papers on almost all topics. This volume focuses on five important topics. (1) "Combinatorial Testing: Theory and Practice" reviews the theory and application of the method of combinatorial testing, focusing particularly on research since 2010, with a brief background providing the rationale and development of combinatorial methods for software testing. They discuss significant advances that have occurred in algorithm performance, and the critical area of constraint representation and processing. (2) "Constraint-Based Testing: An Emerging Trend in Software Testing," discusses constraint-based testing. The general idea behind this testing paradigm is to use a constraint solver to calculate the test inputs to be used for testing a software system so that the fault-revealing capabilities of the testing process can be improved. (3) "Automated Fault Localization: Advances and Challenges. discusses a program failure, the main concern of the developer is to identify what caused it in order to repair the code that induced it. The first activity is termed fault localization, whereas the second is referred to as fault repair. Even though both activities are very important, this chapter will only focus on automated fault localization research. (4) "Recent Advances in Automatic Black-Box Testing," discuss research in black-box testing. In the last few years, research in this area has focused mostly on the automation of black-box approaches to improve applicability and scalability. And (5) "Inroads in Testing Access Control," discuss access control, which forms a significant part of computer security. This chapter pursues the goal of describing the landscape in the research area of access control testing. It provides an outline of the different existing research over the literature according to the taxonomy reflecting the different phases of common software testing processes (generation, selection, prioritization, quality assessment, regression).

Contents:

Preface / Atif M. Memon

Chapter 1.Combinatorial Testing: Theory and Practice / D. Richard Kuhn, Renee Bryce, Feng Duan, Laleh Sh. Ghandehari, and Raghu N. Kacker

Chapter 2. Constraint-Based Testing: An Emerging Trend in Software Testing / Arnaud Gotlieb

Chapter 3. Automated Fault Localization: Advances and Challenges / Wes Masri

Chapter 4. Recent Advances in Automatic Black-Box Testing / Leonardo Mariani, Mauro Pezzè, Daniele Zuddas

Chapter 5. Inroads in Testing Access Control / Tejeddine Mouelhi, Donia El Kateb, Yves Le Traon

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2015).

ISBN:

9780128023396

0128023392

9780128021316

0128021314

OCLC:

922640784