I recently had to update my password on a site that I joined many, many years ago -- far enough in the past that a "good enough" password was "any five characters." The site now wanted me to have a ...

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IMDEA Software researchers Facundo Molina, Juan Manuel Copia and Alessandra Gorla present FIXCHECK, a novel approach to improve patch fix analysis that combines static analysis, randomized testing and ...

Although it is sometimes thought that quality assurance (QA) and software testing are the same, they are, in fact, different concepts. They differ in their objectives, features and methods. Testers ...

Mutation testing is a fault-based software validation technique that involves introducing small, systematic changes (or “mutants”) into programme code to assess the capability of test suites in ...

A newly drafted IEEE standard will bring more consistency to defect metrics in analog/mixed (AMS) designs, a long-overdue step that has become too difficult to ignore in the costly heterogeneous ...

In today's market, businesses need to move quickly, deliver seamless digital experiences and build trust with users. In the face of these demands, software testing has evolved from a necessary process ...

Semiconductor companies have come to rely on delay testing to attain high defect coverage of manufactured digital ICs. Delay testing uses TD (transition delay) patterns created by ATPG (automatic test ...