Mutation testing is a fault based testing technique used to find the effectiveness of test cases. It is a powerful and computationally expensive technique to find the adequacy of test cases. One of the major disadvantages of mutation testing is compiling and executing the faulty versions of the original programs (called mutants) with all the provided test cases. Hence this process should be aut...

From the viewpoint of the clinical laboratory, the consolidation of as many assays and types of assays as possible onto a single and existing automated analyzer (platform) is desirable. Such consolidation, which reduces the complexity and overall cost of a laboratory operation, is exemplified by the implementation of nonseparation (homogeneous) immunoassays such as enzyme multiplied immunoassay...

This chapter approaches paramount aspects related to test automation, introducing the importance of implementation in the software market and essential bases, such as adjustment to the organizational reality and establishment of an efficient strategy. Types of tools and directives for a successful implantation are presented. Test automation has been considered the main measure taken to enhance ...

English) Software has found its way into our everyday lives and as a consequence the impact of software failures can range from just being inconvenient to being life-threatening in the worst case. Consequently, software quality is a major concern in the development of modern software systems. Testing is considered as a practical technique for finding bugs in computer programs. An important aspe...

Handheld device applications with poor usability can reduce the productivity of users and incur costs for businesses, thus usability testing should play a vital role in application development. Conventional usability testing methodologies, such as formal user testing, can be expensive, time consuming and labour intensive; less resource-demanding alternatives can yield unreliable results. Automa...

The levels of quality, maintainability, testability, and stability of software can be improved and measured through the use of automated testing tools throughout the software development process. Automated testing tools assist software engineers to gauge the quality of software by automating the mechanical aspects of the software-testing task. Automated testing tools vary in their underlying ap...

Commercial software components are being used in an increasingly large number of critical applications. Hospitals, military organizations, banks, and others are relying on the robust behavior of software they did not write. Due to the high cost of manual software testing, automated software testing is a desirable, yet difficult goal. One of the difficulties of automated software testing is the ...

In modern computer games market, highly automated testing becomes one of key factors of success. At current stage, industry of computer games is not mature enough for automated testing. The paper describes method of bringing automated quality assurance techniques from more established computer engineering fields to computer game development. Automated acceptance testing framework, based on Pyth...

It is known to be inherently more difficult and laborintensive to functionally test software applications that employ a graphical user interface front-end, due to the vast GUI input space. We propose an automated testing framework for functional and statistical testing of GUI-driven applications, using a combination of two rigorous software specification and testing methods and integrating them...