Automated Testing of Modern Software Systems and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Modern software systems and applications have a significant impact on all aspects of our society, being crucial for a multitude of economic, social, and educational activities. Indeed, a considerable amount of modern software runs on web browsers and smartphones, while IoT systems are becoming ubiquitous.

As a consequence, assuring the correctness and quality of such systems/applications is of undeniable importance. Their complexity and characteristics, combined with ever-shorter development cycles, demand novel approaches to testing. Several exciting research directions are emerging, ranging from the automated generation of test suites using, for example, search-based strategies, to the usage of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to further increase the effectiveness of testing frameworks and tools.

Moreover, many cutting-edge modern applications often include ML- and AI-based features, but the quality assurance of these complex, intelligent components is still at a very early stage.

This Special Issue welcomes contributions regarding novel automated testing approaches improving the state-of-the-art on testing modern software with a particular (but not limited) focus on Web, Mobile, IoT, ML/AI-based systems, and applications.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Testing of web applications;
• Testing of mobile applications (e.g., Android, iOS);
• Testing of Internet of Things systems;
• Testing of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence-based systems/applications
• Automated generation and maintenance of test cases for modern systems/applications;
• End-to-end testing of web and mobile applications;
• Acceptance and system testing of modern systems/applications;
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applied to software testing;
• Tools and frameworks for testing modern systems/applications;
• Empirical studies on modern systems/applications testing (e.g., experiments, surveys, literature reviews).

Dr. Maurizio Leotta
Guest Editor

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• software engineering
• software testing
• test automation
• web application
• mobile application
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• machine learning (ML)
• deep learning
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• applications of AI and ML
• empirical study