Testing is one of the most widely used techniques to increase the quality and reliability of complex software systems. In this paper we refine our previous work on passive testing with invariants to incorporate (probabilistic) knowledge obtained from users of the system under test by using data mining techniques. We adapt our previous approach in order to reduce costs. We emphasize the use of d...

For a customer the Open Architecture concept seems great, however, it is unknown whether it will provide a reduction in the overall cost of test. For instance, an advantage of an Open Architecture is to be flexible and scalable to reduce total platform replacements. However, flexibility and system scaling introduces complexity which tends to be at odds with cost. Thus an Open Architecture solut...

BACKGROUND Falls are a prevalent and burdensome problem in the elderly. Tools for the assessment of fall risk are fundamental for fall prevention. Clinical studies for the development and evaluation of prognostic tools for falls show high heterogeneity in the settings and in the reported results. Newly developed tools are susceptible to over-optimism. OBJECTIVES This study proposes a probabil...

This document presents the benchmark SPECpower_ssj2008® which was developed and published by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC®). SPECpower_ssj2008 measures the energy efficiency of volume server class computers by evaluating both the power and performance characteristics of the System Under Test (SUT). Because of SPECpower_ssj2008’s defined measurement standard it allows th...

This study evaluated the responsiveness of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), an individualized, client-centered outcome measure for the identification and evaluation of self-perceived occupational performance problems. We recruited 152 consecutive patients with various diagnoses, admitted to the outpatient clinic of two occupational therapy departments, to complete a COPM in...

It is difficult to determine adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in daily complicated clinical practice in which many kinds of drugs are prescribed. We evaluated how well the Naranjo Algorithm (NA) categorized ADRs among suspected ADRs. The Japan Adverse Drug Events (JADE) study was a prospective cohort study of 3459 inpatients. After all suspected ADRs were reported from research assistants, a singl...

Unit testing of software requires the construction of large amounts of supporting software Test drivers and stubs are needed to isolate the unit under test from other units and test cases speci cations need to be translated into compilable code Constructing test software is as time consuming and as fault prone as any other software and sometimes more so To support testers there are tools that c...

GH-releasing peptide-6 (GHRP-6) is a potent GH secretagogue that releases GH by uncertain mechanisms. To assess whether GHRH is required for GH release by GHRP-6 in humans, we used the specific antagonist to GHRH (N-Ac-Tyr1,D-Arg2)GHRH(1-29)NH2 (GHRH Ant). We have previously shown that GHRH-Ant (400 microg/kg) blocked the GH response to 0.33 and 3.3 microg/kg boluses of GHRH by 95% and 81%, res...

In the past years special chips for external test have been successfully used for random pattern testing. In this paper a technique is presented to combine the advantages of such a low cost test with the advantages of pseudo-exhaustive testing, which are an enhanced fault coverage and a simplified test pattern generation. To achieve this goal two tasks are solved. Firstly, an algorithm is devel...

Hydraulic support is the main supporting equipment of the coal mining systems, and they are usually subjected to fatigue failure under the high dynamic load. The fracture positions are generally at welded joints where there is a serious stress concentration. In order to investigate and further improve the fatigue strength of hydraulic support, the present work first located the possible positio...