Different kinds of unit testing activities are used in practice. Organised unit testing (regression testing or test-first activities) are very popular in commercial practice, while ad-hoc (interactive) testing is popular in small scale and experimental development environments and teaching situations. These testing styles are usually kept separate. This paper introduces a design and implementat...

Testing holds an important place in the Iranian test-oriented context where the entrance examinations have serious educational and occupational outcomes. This study aimed to explore the potential washback effects of the General English Language Test of the Ph.D. (GELTP) as part of the Ph.D. University Entrance Examination (PUEE) on the humanities and science students’ perceptions and practices....

Literature is replete with the studies focusing on the role of vocabulary knowledge in second language receptive skills. However, the relationship between the aspects of vocabulary knowledge and productive skills in general, and the speaking performance in particular has remained scanty in the related literature. This paper examined the relationship between knowledge of L2 vocabulary size at di...

Experiments were run to assess three ways of evaluating the quality of language translations: back translation, knowledge testing, and performance testing. Twelve professional English-to-Vietnamese translators processed approximately 10,000 words of technical material (i.e., a helicopter maintenance manual). Subjects took knowledge tests or performed a difficult maintenance task using translate...

Simulation-based testing of discrete-event control systems can be advantageous. There is, however, a considerable difference between languages for real-time control and simulation languages. The χ language, presented in this paper, is suited to specification and simulation of realtime control systems. The hybrid nature of the language makes it also suited to modelling of controlled machines. By...

Embedding a new programming language into an existing one is a widely used technique, because it fastens the development process and gives a part of a language infrastructure for free (e.g. lexical, syntactical analyzers). In this paper we are presenting a new advantage of this development approach regarding to adding testing support for these new languages. Tool support for testing is a crucia...

Software testing can be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a computer program, application and product [1]. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Software testing, depending on the testing method employed, can be implemented at any time in the d...

Whereas object-orientation is established as a major paradigm for software development, testing methods specifically targeted towards object-oriented, classbased languages are less common. We propose a formal testing framework for object-oriented programs, based on the observable trace semantics of class components, i.e., for black-box testing. In particular, we propose a test specification lan...

the purpose of this study was to investigate two different techniques for testing reading comprehension questions. differences are measured by two different types of questions including inferential and referential questions. to answer the referential questions, the reader is required to move beyond the level of sentence comprehension and understand the relationship among the sentences. while, i...