As time continues to advance, the need for robust security threat mitigation has become increasingly vital in software. It is a constant struggle to maximize test coverage through optimal data generation. We conducted explanatory research to maximize...
Product line testing is significant because any faults in a product line platform can lead to widespread impacts on multiple products configured from that platform within a product line. Due to the shared platform, certain testing can be repeatedly p...
Test coverage is a critical aspect of the software development process, aiming for overall confidence in the product. When considering cloud-native systems, testing becomes complex, as it becomes necessary to deal with multiple distributed microservi...
Insurance coverage policies are a major determinant of patient access to genomic tests. The objective of this study was to examine differences in coverage policies for guideline-recommended pharmacogenomic tests that inform cancer treatment. We analy...
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has become a serious challenge for humanity almost everywhere globally. Despite active vaccination around the world, the incidence proportion in different countries varies significantly as of May 2022. The reason m...
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are applied in safety-critical fields such as autonomous driving, aircraft collision detection, and smart credit. They are highly susceptible to input perturbations, but little research on RNN-oriented testing techniq...
Scenario-based testing is a mainstream approach for evaluating the safety of automated driving systems (ADS). However, logical scenarios are defined through parameter spaces, and performance differences among systems under test make it difficult to e...
Structural software testing is an essential stage in the software development lifecycle, where achieving high coverage and fault detection remains a significant challenge. Manual testing is costly and inefficient for a program with a large number of...
Pilot testing is crucial when preparing any community-based vaccination coverage survey. In this paper, we use the term pilot test to mean informative work conducted before a survey protocol has been finalized for the purpose of guiding decisions abo...
Fault concealment in complex software programs and the difficulty of generating test cases to detect such faults present significant challenges in software testing. To resolve these challenges, this paper suggests a novel method that integrates mutat...
The number of software failures, software reliability, and failure rates can be measured and predicted by the software reliability growth model (SRGM). SRGM is developed and tested in a controlled environment where the operating environment is differ...
We have been attempting to evaluate software quality and improve its reliability. Therefore, research on a software reliability model was part of the effort. Currently, software is used in various fields and environments; hence, one must provide quan...
This paper presents a general testing coverage software reliability modeling framework that covers imperfect debugging and considers not only fault detection processes (FDP) but also fault correction processes (FCP). Numerous software reliability gro...
In the present paper, we investigate an approach to intelligent support of the software white-box testing process based on an evolutionary paradigm. As a part of this approach, we solve the urgent problem of automated generation of the optimal set of...
Regression testing of the software during its maintenance phase, requires test case prioritization and selection due to the dearth of the allotted time. The resources and the time in this phase are very limited, thus testers tend to use regression te...
Low-coverage next-generation sequencing experiments assisted by statistical methods are popular in a genetic association study. Next-generation sequencing experiments produce genotype data that include allele read counts and read depths. For low sequ...
Information Technology has rapidly developed in recent years and software systems can play a critical role in the symmetry of the technology. Regarding the field of software testing, white-box unit-level testing constitutes the backbone of all other...
A test suite is a set of test cases that evaluate the quality of software. The aim of whole test suite generation is to create test cases with the highest coverage scores possible. This study investigated the efficiency of a multiple-searching geneti...
The process of software development is incomplete without software testing. Software testing expenses account for almost half of all development expenses. The automation of the testing process is seen to be a technique for reducing the cost of softwa...
Ensuring software quality during development requires effective regression testing. However, test suites in open-source libraries often grow large, redundant, and difficult to maintain. Most traditional test suite optimization methods treat test case...
Access control systems represent a security mechanism to regulate the access to system resources, and XACML is the standard language for specifying, storing and deploying access control policies. The verbosity and complexity of XACML syntax as well a...
This paper describes a novel approach to assess detection mechanisms and their diagnostic coverage, implemented using embedded software, designed to identify random hardware failures affecting digital components. In the literature, many proposals ado...
Fuzz testing technology is an important approach to detecting SQL injection vulnerabilities. Among them, coverage-guided gray-box fuzz testing technology is the current research focus, and has been proved to be an effective method. However, for SQL i...
The effect of insertion depth and position of cochlear implant (CI) electrode arrays on speech perception remains unclear. This study aimed to determine the relationship between cochlear coverage and speech performance in children with prelingual hea...
Scan-based structural testing methods have seen numerous inventions in scan compression techniques to reduce TDV (test data volume) and TAT (test application time). Compression techniques lead to test coverage (TC) loss and test patterns count (TPC)...
This paper presents an intelligent AI test modeling framework for computer vision systems, focused on image-based systems. A three-dimensional (3D) model using decision tables enables model-based function testing, automated test data generation, and...
This paper presents a mathematical approach for determining the reliability of solar tracking systems based on three fault coverage-aware metrics which use system error data from hardware, software as well as in-circuit testing (ICT) techniques, to c...
Hybrid fuzzing is a popular software testing technique that combines random fuzzing with concolic execution. It is widely used in the security domain known for its ability to find deeply hidden vulnerabilities and reach high code coverage. Hybrid fuz...
With the rapid development of integrated circuit production technology, the scale of FPGA circuits has expanded to billions of gates. The complexity of the internal resource structures in the FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) is continually incr...
Web crawlers are widely used to automatically explore and test web applications. However, navigating the pages of a web application can be difficult due to dynamic page generation. In particular, the inputs for the web form fields can affect the resu...
The present study provides a simplified framework verifying the degree of coverage and completeness of settlement maps derived from the OpenStreetMap (OSM) database at the national scale, with a possible use in official statistics. Measuring the comp...
Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is one of the most common prenatal screening tests used worldwide. Trisomy Test® belongs to NIPT tests based on low-coverage whole-genome sequencing. In our prospective study, 7279 samples of pregnant women col...
Usually, test automation scripts for a web application directly mirror the actions that the tester carries out in the browser, but they tend to be verbose and repetitive, making them expensive to maintain and ineffective in an agile setting. Our rese...
The World Health Organization targets hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination as a public-health threat by 2030. Phetchabun province, in lower northern Thailand, has historically reported one of the country’s highest HCV seroprevalence rates. We de...
The Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) protocol plays a crucial role in wearable and IoT devices, enabling high-speed communication between microcontrollers and peripherals such as sensors, displays, and connectivity modules. With the increasing compl...
Insurers typically argue that regulatory limits on their ability to use genetic tests will induce ‘adverse selection’; they say that this has disadvantages not just for insurers, but also for society as a whole. I argue that, even on its own terms, t...
With the decreasing size of manufacturing process, the scale of island-style field programmable gate array (FPGA) becomes larger, which leads to the increasing complexity of FPGA routing resources, especially hex programmable interconnect points (PIP...
Every year, several epizooties of equine influenza (EI) are reported worldwide. However, no EI case has been identified in France between 2015 and late 2018, despite an effective field surveillance of the pathogen and the disease. Vaccination against...
Fault localization remains a critical challenge in software engineering, directly impacting debugging efficiency and software quality. This study investigates the predictive power of various software metrics for fault localization by framing the task...
Cervical cancer (CC) is one of the most common gynecological malignancies in females, mainly caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). In countries with lower HPV vaccine coverage, such as Japan, medical examination may play a key role in decreasing CC i...
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We investigated factors associated with organised and non-organised colorectal cancer screening using faecal occult blood tests, based on data from 308 municipalities in Flanders (6.6 million residents, 57% of Belgium) during 2015–2017. Logistic regr...
Many NHPP software reliability growth models (SRGMs) have been proposed to assess software reliability during the past 40 years, but most of them have focused on modeling the fault detection process (FDP) in two ways: one is to ignore the fault corre...
Background: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are common globally, posing significant public health challenges and financial strain, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for 40% of global STI prevalen...
This study develops a machine-learning-based framework for multiclass soil classification using Cone Penetration Test (CPT) data, aiming to overcome the limitations of traditional empirical Soil Behavior Type (SBT) charts and improve the automation,...
Background: Romania has one of the highest cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates in the European Union (EU) and one of the lowest levels of screening participation. We examined eight years of screening activity at an accredited centre in Biho...
Bioactive compounds present in plant-based foods, and their metabolites derived from gut microbiota and endogenous metabolism, represent thousands of chemical structures of potential interest for human nutrition and health. State-of-the-art analytica...
Wafer and FPGA testing remains costly in semiconductor manufacturing. This paper studies random sampling, stratified sampling, and k-means sampling under a partial-measurement setting with Gaussian Process Regression (GPR), and introduces Short Dista...
Background: Sources and evidence cited to inform payer coverage decisions on pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing in psychiatry are presently underexplored. Methods: We conducted a qualitative and quantitative assessment of publicly available coverage polic...
Cervical cancer is almost entirely preventable and treatable when detected early, making its elimination within reach for Canada and the world. However, cervical cancer is now the fastest-increasing cancer (+3.7% per year since 2015) in Canada as of...
Eectromechanical systems built by Simulink or Ptolemy have been widely used in industry fields, such as autonomous systems and robotics. It is an urgent need to ensure the safety and security of those systems. Test case generation technologies are wi...
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