Bingyi Cui, Long Zhang, Chenglong Sun, Zhenyu Zhang
{"title":"Idle Strategy of Smart Monkey to Enhance Testing Operable GUI Regions","authors":"Bingyi Cui, Long Zhang, Chenglong Sun, Zhenyu Zhang","doi":"10.17706/jsw.18.3.143-158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17706/jsw.18.3.143-158","url":null,"abstract":": Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing is an important approach to ensuring software applications’ quality. The rendered GUI screen contains operable regions that can be triggered when certain events are applied to these areas. The previous traditional testing methods cannot efficiently identify the GUI area of this operation and generate the sequence of events. Smart Monkey is based on computer vision techniques, which can utilize several basic visual features to confirm the real operable GUI regions. In this paper, we propose an idle strategy of Smart Monkey for enhancing GUI testing. It can use a combination of Monkey and Smart Monkey to achieve high accuracy and efficiency. We implemented the improved technique as an Android testing tool. Then we conduct experiments on 14 real-world applications, comparing with Monkey and Smart Monkey methods, respectively. The results show that it can more efficiently identify operable regions to generate event sequences.","PeriodicalId":11452,"journal":{"name":"e Informatica Softw. Eng. J.","volume":"10 1","pages":"143-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78304281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on the Application of SAE ARP 4754A in the Development of High-Speed Trains","authors":"Lefei Li, Pidong Wang, Fengfeng Huo, Zhongtao Qi, Jianliang Ren, Hongqiao Zhu","doi":"10.17706/jsw.18.3.130-142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17706/jsw.18.3.130-142","url":null,"abstract":": The development process of civil aircraft is to implement the design process of complex products with system engineering for the requirements of stakeholders. As an important activity of system engineering, requirements validation aims to ensure the correctness and integrity of requirements. SAE ARP4754A and the development process of high-speed trains are studied in this paper to analyze the application of important activities specified in SAE ARP4754A in the high-speed trains development process. With the actual situation of the development process for high-speed trains considered, the requirement of “railworthiness” is suggested based on the systems development process and safet y assessment in SAE ARP4754A. To suit the safety requirements, a preliminary development process of high-speed trains is put forward, including the requirements validation procedure designed on the basis of an analysis of stakeholders’ requirements to help train designers with their requirements validation work.","PeriodicalId":11452,"journal":{"name":"e Informatica Softw. Eng. J.","volume":"26 1","pages":"130-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85322656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shaun Yam, P. Yau, Chinsean Sum, Qi Cao, Dennis Wong
{"title":"Accessibility-as-a-Service an Open-Source Reading Assistive Tool for Education","authors":"Shaun Yam, P. Yau, Chinsean Sum, Qi Cao, Dennis Wong","doi":"10.17706/jsw.18.3.106-116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17706/jsw.18.3.106-116","url":null,"abstract":": As technology evolves, more and more articles and materials are readily available on the internet for the world to use. This project proposes and demonstrates the implementation of an application to further increase the accessibility of web pages, through the use of image recognition techniques, object detection, and optical character recognition (OCR). The proposed application allows users to input URLs and the application will process the web page in under a minute and outputs a modified web page with translated words detected from images.","PeriodicalId":11452,"journal":{"name":"e Informatica Softw. Eng. J.","volume":"50 1","pages":"106-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79262640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zahra Rezaei Khavas, Monish Reddy Kotturu, Russell Purkins, S. Ahmadzadeh, P. Robinette
{"title":"The Effect of Performance-Based Compensation on Crowdsourced Human-Robot Interaction Experiments","authors":"Zahra Rezaei Khavas, Monish Reddy Kotturu, Russell Purkins, S. Ahmadzadeh, P. Robinette","doi":"10.17706/jsw.18.3.117-129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17706/jsw.18.3.117-129","url":null,"abstract":": Social scientists have long been interested in the relationship between financial incentives and performance. This subject has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “ crowd-sourcing ” models of production. In recent decades, recruiting participants from crowd-sourcing platforms has gained considerable popularity among human-robot trust researchers. A large number of outliers due to lack of enough attention and focus of the experiment participants or due to participants' boredom and low engagement, especially in crowd-sourcing experiments, has always been a concern for researchers in the field of human-robot interaction. To overcome this problem, financial incentives can be a solution. In this study, we examine the effects of performance-related compensation on the experiment data quality, participants' performance, and accuracy in performing the assigned task, and experiment results in the context of a human-robot trust experiment. We designed an online human-robot collaborative search task and recruited 120 participants for this experiment from Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT). We tested participants' attention, performance, and trust in the robotic teammate under two conditions: constant payment and performance-based payment conditions. We found that using financial incentives can increase the data quality and help prevent the random and aimless behavior of the participants. We also found that financial incentives can improve the participants' performance significantly and causes participants to put more effort into performing the assigned task. However, it does not affect the experiment results unless any measures are directly associated with the compensation value.","PeriodicalId":11452,"journal":{"name":"e Informatica Softw. Eng. J.","volume":"33 1","pages":"117-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74504823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accelerated Defect Discovery and Reliability Improvement through Risk-Prioritized Testing for Web Applications","authors":"J. Tian","doi":"10.17706/jsw.18.3.159-171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17706/jsw.18.3.159-171","url":null,"abstract":": In this paper, we present a risk-prioritized testing strategy aimed at accelerating defect discovery and reliability improvement for Web applications. This strategy is based on analyzing defect rate or density using Web logs and defect data from development activities to produce a prioritized list for testing. We empirically compare it against simulated coverage-based testing for five websites from diverse Web application domains, including academic, open source project, small business catalog showroom, large e-Commerce application, and social networking websites. The results from comparing their respective defect discovery profiles demonstrate the superiority of risk-prioritized testing in accelerating defect discovery and reliability improvement.","PeriodicalId":11452,"journal":{"name":"e Informatica Softw. Eng. J.","volume":"290 1","pages":"159-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77149010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solving a Multi-criteria Decision Problem to Efficiently Handle UML Model Inconsistencies","authors":"Driss Allaki","doi":"10.17706/jsw.18.2.70-85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17706/jsw.18.2.70-85","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, every business is heavily depending on software. However, designing and developing software is a very serious engineering challenge since software systems are growing in size and complexity. This gives rise to many inconsistencies in software design. To deal with this issue, researchers have been working for many years on different model inconsistency management activities, namely the detection, the diagnosis and the handling of those inconsistencies. This work focuses on handling UML model inconsistencies by proposing an AHP-based method aiming to help modelers choosing the right repair action that fits well their modeling objectives and strategies. The proposed method helps structuring the selection of the most appropriate repair action among a set of alternatives. It also represents and quantifies the criteria elements of this decision problem, relates these elements to overall goals and evaluates and ranks alternative solutions. The efficiency of the method is evaluated using different inconsistency examples through different situations. The obtained results show that modelers can have credible propositions to make decisions in accordance with their initial objectives.","PeriodicalId":11452,"journal":{"name":"e Informatica Softw. Eng. J.","volume":"122 1","pages":"70-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76225611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental Data Management Platform for Materials Informatics","authors":"H. Yoshiuchi, Hiroki Miyamoto, Sayaka Tanimoto","doi":"10.17706/jsw.18.2.99-105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17706/jsw.18.2.99-105","url":null,"abstract":"We are promoting the research and development of materials informatics, which realizes the efficiency and sophistication of material research by utilizing a huge amount of experimental data. In order to accelerate new material research and development, it is important to predict the results of new ma-terial development by unimplemented experiments from past experimental data, and for that purpose, a large amount of experimental data generated through various material research processes is used for business. The challenge of material research is to reduce the time for search and acquire data from enormous experiment data. In this paper, we show the experimental da-ta management platform by describing the research and development work-flow with a unified data model. Through prototyping and evaluating the pro-posed technique, we confirmed that the time required for system construction and data acquisition of required experimental data can be reduced by an average of 94.4% in the target work.","PeriodicalId":11452,"journal":{"name":"e Informatica Softw. Eng. J.","volume":"110 1","pages":"99-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89509229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Daase, D. Staegemann, M. Volk, K. Turowski
{"title":"Creation of a Framework and a Corresponding Tool Enabling the Test-Driven Development of Microservices","authors":"Christian Daase, D. Staegemann, M. Volk, K. Turowski","doi":"10.17706/jsw.18.2.55-69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17706/jsw.18.2.55-69","url":null,"abstract":"Microservice architectures have emerged as counter design to traditional monolithic applications. While monoliths are single executable applications, microservice architectures consist of several smaller units. Advantages of microservice architectures are their development speed, lower costs of change, and dynamic scaling ability. However, this pattern requires an adaptation of quality assurance measures. In this research article, test-driven development is investigated in context of microservices that are developed according to established practices. Based on the systems development research methodology, recommendable practices and testing strategies are examined with a translation of that knowledge into an extensive artifact, enabling test-driven microservice development on local systems. Five design principles could be identified, including focusing small services, domain-driven design, striving for low-complexity networks, avoiding cyclic dependencies, and aiming for high connectivity performance. Integration, component, and contract tests could be integrated for automatic execution, showing that test-driven development for microservices is feasible, although with room for improvements.","PeriodicalId":11452,"journal":{"name":"e Informatica Softw. Eng. J.","volume":"62 1","pages":"55-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83991957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christine Rese, Nikolai West, Mathias Gebler, Sven Krzoska, P. Schlunder, J. Deuse
{"title":"Pipeline for the Automatic Extraction of Procedural Knowledge from Assembly Instructions into Controlled Natural Language","authors":"Christine Rese, Nikolai West, Mathias Gebler, Sven Krzoska, P. Schlunder, J. Deuse","doi":"10.17706/jsw.18.1.1-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17706/jsw.18.1.1-14","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the application of a Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline, which automatically extracts procedural knowledge in a standardized way from assembly instructions. The developed pipeline is able to parse and process written German assembly instructions regardless of the language discourse. The pipeline helps resolve ambiguities in assembly instructions by converting them into a Controlled Natural Language (CNL). The pipeline fully automates the translation process from free-text assembly instructions to CNL representations. We investigated and evaluated the efficiency and robustness of the NLP pipeline along multiple dimensions, such as different assembly process designers, language and fuzzy string matching models. To test the developed pipeline we used to automatically extract procedural knowledge in a standardized way for 2,740 assembly instructions obtained from automotive industry. Our investigation shows that the NLP pipeline is able to extract CNL representations with high accuracy (ø 87%). Downstream applications, such as assembly line balancing, can reuse the uniformly extracted procedural knowledge.","PeriodicalId":11452,"journal":{"name":"e Informatica Softw. Eng. J.","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83019973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Agbese, Hanna-Kaisa Alanen, Jani Antikainen, Erika Halme, H. Isomäki, Marianna Jantunen, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Rebekah A. Rousi, Heidi Vainio-Pekka, Ville Vakkuri
{"title":"Governance in Ethical, Trustworthy AI Systems: Extension of the ECCOLA Method for AI Ethics Governance Using GARP","authors":"M. Agbese, Hanna-Kaisa Alanen, Jani Antikainen, Erika Halme, H. Isomäki, Marianna Jantunen, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Rebekah A. Rousi, Heidi Vainio-Pekka, Ville Vakkuri","doi":"10.37190/e-inf230101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37190/e-inf230101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11452,"journal":{"name":"e Informatica Softw. Eng. J.","volume":"72 6 1","pages":"230101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89417351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}