Mutation testing is the art of generating syntactic versions (called mutants) of a base program,
and is widely used in software testing, most notably the assessment of test suites. Mutants …

Abstract Evaluation and selection of the software packages is complicated and time consuming
decision making process. Selection of inappropriate software package can turn out to be …

… study system design evolution in the Agile software process. We present an empirical study
of the class growth and the SDI metric in two OO systems, developed using an agile process …

Context Several research efforts have been targeted to support architecture centric development
and evolution of software for robotic systems for the last two decades. Objective We …

… Software plays an important role in our daily life, as software failure can lead to a huge economic
loss … We apply this definition to software systems and define our state model as follows: …

… (Carrington et al., 1993) bears a resemblance to some of the SCTs discussed in this article.
Software errors occur when a maintenance programmer’s model of the architecture of a …

… It includes a summary of the papers in this special issue of the Journal of Systems and
Software, which were presented at the First International Silver Falls Workshop on Software …

Support vector machines (SVMs) have been successfully employed to solve non-linear
regression and time series problems. However, SVMs have rarely been applied to forecasting …

For both in-house development and outsourcing development environments, knowing the
field failure rate of an integrated software system prior to field deployment provides guidance …

The idea of developing software components was envisioned more than forty years ago. In
the past two decades, Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) has emerged as a …