Software systems are increasingly being used in business or mission critical scenarios,
where the presence of certain types of software defects, ie, bugs, may result in catastrophic …

Embedded systems are becoming ubiquitous companions in all our lives. This article
reviews the terminology and modern understanding of complex anomalies and state-of-the …

Mobile devices are significantly complex, feature-rich, and heavily customized, thus they are
prone to software reliability and performance issues. This paper considers the problem of …

The aggressive waves of ongoing world-wide virus pandemics urge us to conduct further
studies on the performability of local computing infrastructures at hospitals/medical centers …

Deep learning frameworks play a key rule to bridge the gap between deep learning theory
and practice. With the growing of safety-and security-critical applications built upon deep …

Symptoms of software aging include performance degradation and failure occurrence
increasing when software systems run for a period of time. Therefore, software aging is …

This paper presents an empirical study of 5741 bug reports for the Linux kernel from an
evolutionary perspective, with the aim of obtaining a deep understanding of bug …

Traditional software fault tolerance makes use of design-diversity-based redundancy. While
proven to be effective, the independent development of multiple versions of a program or …

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become an increasingly popular choice for building
software application in the last years. An SOA system is an elastic structure that utilizes …

Understanding and predicting types of bugs are of practical importance for developers to
improve the testing efficiency and take appropriate steps to address bugs in software …