Context Any newcomer or industrial practitioner is likely to experience difficulties in digesting
large volumes of knowledge in software testing. In an ideal world, all knowledge used in …

Abstract Design patterns are widely used by software developers to build complex systems.
Hence, they have been investigated by many researchers in recent decades. This leads to …

Large software systems require regular upgrading that tries to correct the reported faults in
previous versions and add some functions to meet new requirements. It is thus necessary to …

Developing a plan for monitoring software quality is a non-trivial task, in the sense that it
requires:(a) the selection of relevant quality attributes, based on application domain and …

In conceptual modeling (CM), humans apply abstraction to represent excerpts of reality for
means of understanding and communication, and processing by machines. Artificial …

Most existing software reliability growth models (SGRMs) often assume software faults are
mutually independent and the detected faults can be perfectly removed. However, those two …

Context The increasing dependence of our society on software driven systems has led
Software Reliability to become a key factor as well as making it a highly active research area …

Abstract Until recently, many Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) and Systematic Mapping
Studies (SMSs) have been proposed. However, when SMS is performed on a broad topic …

Monetary markets serve as established resource allocation mechanisms, typically achieving
efficient solutions with limited information. However, they are susceptible to market failures …

Quality model is regarded as a well-accepted approach for assessing, managing and
improving software product quality. There are three categories of quality models for software …