BACKGROUND Current methods to assess Basic Life Support skills (BLS; chest compressions and ventilations) require the presence of an instructor. This is time-consuming and comports instructor bias. Since BLS skills testing is a routine activity, it is potentially suitable for automation. We developed a fully automated BLS testing station without instructor by using innovative software linked to...

Software testing is a process of refining faults and errors in a software system or project. Software testing is done by both manually and systematically. Automated testing of software is mostly followed in today’s industry. To achieve this, the concern project is divided into various test suites and then testing is done. These test suites should be minimized, selected and prioritized to make t...

Automated test suite generation is an optimization technique to reduce test effort and duration. Software Testing has traditionally been one of the main techniques contributing to high software quality and dependability. Testing performance consumes about 50% of software development resources, so any methods aiming at reducing softwaretesting costs are likely to reduce software development cost...

Automated software testing has gained much attention because it is expected to improve testing productivity and reduce testing cost. Automated generation and execution of tests, however, are still very limited. This paper presents a tool, ISTA (Integration and System Test Automation), for automated test generation and execution by using high-level Petri nets as finite state test models. ISTA ha...

Editorial Board Pattern Sensitivity in MOS Memories p. 2 Diagnostic Testing of MOS Random Access Memories p. 6 Testing Semiconductor Memories p. 11 What Is Necessary for Testing "ROMs" and "PROMs"? p. 26 Microprocessor Function Test Generation on the Sentry 600 p. 32 A Tutorial Paper on Software Approaches to Testing of Microprocessor Systems p. 41 Can a User Test LSI Microprocessors Effectivel...

We introduce a methodology and research tools for visual exploratory software analysis. VERDICTS combines exploratory testing, tracing, visualization, dynamic discovery and injection of requirements speci cations into a live quick-feedback cycle, without recompilation or restart of the system under test. This supports discovery and veri cation of software dynamic behavior, software comprehensio...

Received, June 28, 2002. Accepted, October 18, 2002. OBJECTIVE: Programmable, multicontact, implanted stimulation devices represent an important advance in spinal cord stimulation for the management of pain. They facilitate the technical goal of covering areas of pain by stimulation-evoked paresthesiae. Adjustment after implantation requires major investments of time and effort, however, if the...

One of the important factor in the design of automated guided vehicle systems (AGVS) is the flow path design. This paper presents a branch-and-bound algorithm to determining the flow path by considering not only loaded-vehicles, but also empty-vehicles. The objective is to find the flow path, which will minimize total travel of loaded vehicles. We know that in branch-and-bound method a branch c...

Testing is an important task of the software development process. It gives assurance of many things, for example that the software executes correctly or that its performance is within acceptable limits – it gives assurance of the quality for the software. Despite this fact, testing is the task that often gets down prioritized because of budget constraints or time shortage. Often this depends on...

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