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Personality Characteristic-based Enhanced Software Testing Levels for Crowd Outsourcing Environment

  • Kamangar, Zainab U.;Siddiqui, Isma Farah;Arain, Qasim Ali;Kamangar, Umair A.;Qureshi, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.15 no.8
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    • pp.2974-2992
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    • 2021
  • Crowd-based outsourcing is an emerging trend in testing, which integrates advantages of crowd-based outsourcing in software testing. Open call format is used to accomplish various network tasks involving different types of testing levels and techniques at various places by software testers. Crowd-sourced software testing can lead to an improper testing process as if it does not allocate the right task to the right crowd with required skills and not choose the right crowd; it can lead to huge results, which become time-consuming and challenging crowd-source manager for the identification of improper one. The primary purpose of this research is to make crowd-based outsourced software testing more effective and reliable by relating association between the software tester, personality characteristic, and different levels of software testing, i.e., unit, integration, and system, in order to find appropriate personality characteristic for required testing level. This research has shown an observed experiment to determine which software testing level suits which personality characteristic tester in a crowd-based software testing environment. A total of 1000 software testers from different software houses and firms in Pakistan were registered to perform tasks at different software testing levels. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test is used to identify each tester's personality characteristic involved in this research study.

Machine Learning Frameworks for Automated Software Testing Tools : A Study

  • Kim, Jungho;Ryu, Joung Woo;Shin, Hyun-Jeong;Song, Jin-Hee
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.38-44
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    • 2017
  • Increased use of software and complexity of software functions, as well as shortened software quality evaluation periods, have increased the importance and necessity for automation of software testing. Automating software testing by using machine learning not only minimizes errors in manual testing, but also allows a speedier evaluation. Research on machine learning in automated software testing has so far focused on solving special problems with algorithms, leading to difficulties for the software developers and testers, in applying machine learning to software testing automation. This paper, proposes a new machine learning framework for software testing automation through related studies. To maximize the performance of software testing, we analyzed and categorized the machine learning algorithms applicable to each software test phase, including the diverse data that can be used in the algorithms. We believe that our framework allows software developers or testers to choose a machine learning algorithm suitable for their purpose.

A Study on the Optimal Release Time Decision of a Developed Software by using Logistic Testing Effort Function (로지스틱 테스트 노력함수를 이용한 소프트웨어의 최적인도시기 결정에 관한 연구)

  • Che, Gyu-Shik;Kim, Yong-Kyung
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2005
  • This paper proposes a software-reliability growth model incoporating the amount of testing effort expended during the software testing phase after developing it. The time-dependent behavior of testing effort expenditures is described by a Logistic curve. Assuming that the error detection rate to the amount of testing effort spent during the testing phase is proportional to the current error content, a software-reliability growth model is formulated by a nonhomogeneous Poisson process. Using this model the method of data analysis for software reliability measurement is developed. After defining a software reliability, This paper discusses the relations between testing time and reliability and between duration following failure fixing and reliability are studied. SRGM in several literatures has used the exponential curve, Railleigh curve or Weibull curve as an amount of testing effort during software testing phase. However, it might not be appropriate to represent the consumption curve for testing effort by one of already proposed curves in some software development environments. Therefore, this paper shows that a logistic testing-effort function can be adequately expressed as a software development/testing effort curve and that it gives a good predictive capability based on real failure data.

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Improvement of the Automobile Control Software Testing Process Using a Test Maturity Model

  • Jang, Jin-Wook
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.607-620
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    • 2018
  • The problem surrounding methods of implementing the software testing process has come under the spotlight in recent times. However, as compliance with the software testing process does not necessarily bring with it immediate economic benefits, IT companies need to pursue more aggressive efforts to improve the process, and the software industry needs to makes every effort to improve the software testing process by evaluating the Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi). Furthermore, as the software test process is only at the initial level, high-quality software cannot be guaranteed. This paper applies TMMi model to Automobile control software testing process, including test policy and strategy, test planning, test monitoring and control, test design and execution, and test environment goal. The results suggest improvement of the automobile control software testing process based on Test maturity model. As a result, this study suggest IT organization's test process improve method.

Automated Testing System Using AUTOSAR XML (AUTOSAR XML을 이용한 테스팅 자동화 시스템 개발)

  • Kum, Daehyun;Lee, Seonghun;Park, Gwangmin;Cho, Jeonghun
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.156-163
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    • 2009
  • Recently a standard software platform for automotive, AUTOSAR, has been developed to manage growing software complexity and improve software reuseability. However reuse of testing system and test data are difficult because they are dependant on implementation language and testing phases. In this paper, we suggest a automated testing approach for AUTOSAR software component using a standardized testing language, TTCN-3. AUTOSAR defines the AUTOSAR XML Schema for the data exchange format so that it is possible to automatically convert AUTOSAR model into TTCN-3 testing model. Therefore our approach is to present generation techniques for the TTCN-3 testing system from a AUTOSAR XML description. With the proposed testing techniques we can reduce time and effort to build the testing system and reuse testing environment.

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A Study of the Software Testing Methods and fitness of the Reliability Models (소프트웨어 시험 전략과 신뢰도 모델적응 연구)

  • 문숙경
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.92-102
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    • 2001
  • Software testing during development and operation should exercise to obtain the desired software quality and leave failure data set. So far, many software reliability models are classified and can be used to measure a software reliability only based on its failure history But, in practice, developers or testers of software systems must decide which existing software reliability model can be fitted. In this paper, we will show that an appropriate reliability model can be selected by considering relations between characteristics of each testing environment and models' assumptions. Several methods of software testing are presented and discussed. Also, unit test, integrated test, function test and system test that are sequentially exercised during development will be introduced.

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Testing System for Automotive Software Using a General Purpose Development Board (범용 개발 보드를 이용한 차량용 소프트웨어 테스트 시스템 개발)

  • Kum, DaeHyun;Hong, JaeSeung;Jin, SungHo;Cho, JeongHun
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2012
  • Recently automotive software has been more complex and needs to be reduced its development time. Software testing of its functionalities and performance should be conducted in an early development phase to reduce time to market and the development cost. Software functional testing can be performed through simulating the hardware, but it is not guaranteed that evaluation of real-time performance using simulation has enough accuracy. Real-time performance can be precisely evaluated with hardware-in-the-loop simulation, but it costs time and effort to set up hardware for testing. In this paper, we suggest a testing system that can evaluate functional requirements and real time properties with a general-purpose development board in the early development phase. In addition, we improve reusability of the testing system through modularized and layered architecture. With the proposed testing system we can contribute to building reliable testing system at low cost without difficulty.

Runtime Software Monitoring Based on Binary Code Translation for Real-Time Software

  • Choi, Kiho;Kim, Seongseop;Park, Daejin;Cho, Jeonghun
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.1462-1471
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    • 2019
  • Real-time embedded systems have become pervasive in general industry. They also began to be applied in such domains as avionics, automotive, aerospace, healthcare, and industrial Internet. However, the system failure of such domains could result in catastrophic consequences. Runtime software testing is required in such domains that demands very high accuracy. Traditional runtime software testing based on handwork is very inefficient and time consuming. Hence, test automation methodologies in runtime is demanding. In this paper, we introduce a software testing system that translates a real-time software into a monitorable real-time software. The monitorable real-time software means the software provides the monitoring information in runtime. The monitoring target are time constraints of the input real-time software. We anticipate that our system lessens the burden of runtime software testing.

MND-TMM for Testing Process Improvements of Defense Software (국방 소프트웨어의 시험 프로세스 개선을 위한 국방 시험 성숙도 모델)

  • Park, Jun-Young;Ryu, Ho-Yeon;Choi, Ho-Jin;Baik, Jong-Moon;Kim, Jin-Soo
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.288-296
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    • 2008
  • Software in defense domain requires high quality since defense specific characteristics. To assure high quality products, development and testing activities based on well defined process must be performed. If those activities cannot support software acquisition process, the quality of acquired software product is low and combat power decreases. In this paper, we propose MND-TMM(Ministry of National Defense-Testing Maturity Model), which can help enhance software quality through testing process improvements. This paper also introduces the contents of MND-TMM architecture. MND-TMM is constituted to reflect the characteristics of defense software, development process, and testing process so as to solve the problems associated with software testing. MND-TMM is comprised of 5 maturity levels and 4 categories which have number of related TPA(Testing Process Area)s. It is expected that MND-TMM can help assess testing maturity of defense software organizations and provides guidelines to improve software testing process.

Framework and Methodology for Interoperability Testing of Software (소프트웨어 상호운영성 시험 체계와 방법론)

  • 강성원;신재휘;성종진;홍경표
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.394-402
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    • 2004
  • When two or more entities interact with each other as when they collaborate or communicate, the degree of correctness of the interactions is called interoperability. In software, the necessity of interoperability testing arises when we build a software system in which multiple interacting software entities are employed to perform the function or task of the system. These days as software is more and more being used to solve complex problems and through networking functions of software can be distributed to provide abundant services, the more the interoperability testing becomes important. This paper provides the framework and methodology for interoperability testing by discussing the fundamental concepts and principles that underlie interoperability and interoperability testing and the approaches for practicing interoperability testing.