In the recent years, the advances in mobile technology have brought an exorbitant change
in daily lifestyle of individuals. Smartphones/mobile devices are rampant in all aspects of …

Although testing effort estimation is a very important task in software project management, it
is rarely described in the literature. There are many difficulties in finding any useful methods …

The main goal of software project cost and effort estimation is to scientifically estimate the
required workload and its corresponding costs in the life cycle of software system. Software …

Context Executing an entire regression test-suite after every code change is often costly in
large software projects. To cope with this challenge, researchers have proposed various …

Software testing (ST) has been considered as one of the most important and critical activities
of the software development life cycle (SDLC) since it influences directly on quality. When a …

Abstract Hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) testing is important for develo** cyber-physical
systems (CPS). HiL test cases manipulate hardware, are time-consuming and their …

Software test processes are complex and costly. To reduce testing effort without
compromising effectiveness and product quality, automation of test activities has been …

Although software testing is a central task in the software lifecycle, it is sometimes neglected
due to its high costs. Tools to automate the testing process minor its costs, however they …

Test automation is a widely-used approach to reduce the cost of manual software testing.
However, if it is not planned or conducted properly, automated testing would not necessarily …

With the substantial proliferation in demand for applications running on mobile devices,
developers and testers are foreseen to release applications with high caliber, on time and …