Mutation Testing is a fault-based software testing technique that has been widely studied for
over three decades. The literature on Mutation Testing has contributed a set of approaches …

This paper introduces a new paradigm for Mutation Testing, which we call Higher Order
Mutation Testing (HOM Testing). Traditional Mutation Testing considers only first order …

With the growing emphasis on reuse, software development process moves toward
component-based software design. As a result, there is a need for modeling approaches that …

This paper introduces a reliability model, and a reliability analysis technique for component-
based software. The technique is named Scenario-Based Reliability Analysis (SBRA). Using …

The need for test adequacy criteria is widely recognized. Several criteria have been
proposed for the assessment of adequacy of tests at the unit level. However, there remains a …

We report an experiment to evaluate a method, known as component based reliability
estimation (CBRE), for the estimation of reliability of a software system using reliabilities of …

The concept of object storage was introduced in the early 1990's by the research community.
Since then it has greatly matured and is now in its early stages of adoption by the industry …

Mutation testing is the process whereby a fault is deliberately inserted into a software
system, in order to assess the quality of test data, in terms of its ability to find this fault …

The establishment of a low-cost, effective testing and validation strategy has been pursued
by many researchers at the program level as well as at the specification level. The …

Component-based software engineering (CBSE) has emerged as an approach that offers
rapid development of system using fewer resources and effort. The core idea of reuse and …