{"title":"Partition testing with dynamic partitioning","authors":"K. Cai, Tao Jing, Chenggang Bai","doi":"10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.118","url":null,"abstract":"A new partition testing strategy that adopts dynamic partitioning is proposed in this paper. By dynamic partitioning it is meant that the test suite or the input domain of the software under test is partitioned into several subdomains whose members are dynamically adjusted during testing by using feedback information such as the testing data collected on-line. Two controlled software experiments show that the new strategy can significantly outperform the purely random testing strategy in particular, and the random-partition testing strategy in general.","PeriodicalId":419267,"journal":{"name":"29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114962836","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}
Andreas Holzinger, M. Errath, Gig Searle, B. Thurnher, W. Slany
{"title":"From extreme programming and usability engineering to extreme usability in software engineering education (XP+UE /spl rarr/ XU)","authors":"Andreas Holzinger, M. Errath, Gig Searle, B. Thurnher, W. Slany","doi":"10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.80","url":null,"abstract":"The success of extreme programming (XP) is based, among other things, on an optimal communication in teams of 6-12 persons, simplicity, frequent releases and a reaction to changing demands. Most of all, the customer is integrated into the development process, with constant feedback. This is very similar to usability engineering (UE) which follows a spiral four phase procedure model (analysis, draft, development, test) and a three step (paper mock-up, prototype, final product) production model. In comparison, these phases are extremely shortened in XP; also the ideal team size in UE user-centered development is 4-6 people, including the end-user. The two development approaches have different goals but, at the same time, employ similar methods to achieve them. It seems obvious that there must be synergy in combining them. The authors present ideas in how to combine them in an even more powerful development method called extreme usability (XU). The most important issue of this paper is that the authors have embedded their ideas into software engineering education.","PeriodicalId":419267,"journal":{"name":"29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134147310","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":"An agent-based testing approach for Web applications","authors":"Yu Qi, D. Kung, W. E. Wong","doi":"10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.42","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Web applications have grown so quickly that they have already become crucial to the success of businesses. However, since they are built on Internet and open standard technologies, Web applications bring new challenges to researchers, such as dynamic behaviors, heterogeneous representations, novel control flow and data flow mechanisms, etc. In this paper, we propose an agent-based approach for Web application testing. While the agent-based framework greatly reduces the complexity of Web applications, a four-level dataflow test approach can be employed to perform structure testing on them. In this approach, data flow analysis is performed as function level testing, function cluster level testing, object level testing, and Web application level testing, from low abstract level to high abstract level. Each test agent in the framework takes charge of the testing in an abstract level for a particular type of Web document or object.","PeriodicalId":419267,"journal":{"name":"29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05)","volume":"30 37","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132940139","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":"Tree-map visualisation for Web accessibility","authors":"J. Bailey, E. Burd","doi":"10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.161","url":null,"abstract":"Ensuring a Website is accessible for diverse sets of users is a crucial and in some circumstances a legal requirement. It can also be a time consuming and frustrating fire fighting exercise. This research paper describes a visual evaluation of the accessibility of a Website using Tree-Maps. Its goal is to highlight areas of a site that need attention. This is achieved by generating accessibility metrics and then plotting these onto a visualisation. The research identified that tree-maps can efficiently represent the accessibility of a Website. Further work on the visualisation of changes in accessibility is suggested and discussed.","PeriodicalId":419267,"journal":{"name":"29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05)","volume":"440 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132267993","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":"Autonomous hot patching for Web-based applications","authors":"H. Huang, W. Tsai, Yinong Chen","doi":"10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.51","url":null,"abstract":"Patching technologies are commonly applied to improve the dependability of software after release. This paper proposes an autonomous hot patching (AHP) framework to fully automate the reasoning for the causes of failures, and to patch the binary code of Web-based applications. AHP admits the hardness for rooting out all faults before product release, and autonomously patches problems of application programs. By directly operating on binary code, AHP is universal to virtually all applications. A promising application of AHP is to shortcut the remote maintenance center (RMC) and hence to reduce the turn around time for patches.","PeriodicalId":419267,"journal":{"name":"29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126513621","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":"A defect estimation approach for sequential inspection using a modified capture-recapture model","authors":"Ching-Pao Chang, Jia-Lyn Lv, Chih-Ping Chu","doi":"10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.19","url":null,"abstract":"Defect prediction is an important process in the evaluation of software quality. To accurately predict the rate of software defects can not only facilitate software review decisions, but can also improve software quality. In this paper, we have provided a defect estimation approach, which uses defective data from sequential inspections to increase the accuracy of estimating defects. To demonstrate potential improvements, the results of our approach were compared to those of two other popular estimation approaches, the capture-recapture model and the re-inspection model. By using the proposed approach, software organizations may increase the accuracy of their defect predictions and reduce the effort of subsequent inspections.","PeriodicalId":419267,"journal":{"name":"29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125070219","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":"Character recognition system for cellular phone with camera","authors":"K. S. Bae, K. K. Kim, Y. G. Chung, Wonpil Yu","doi":"10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.55","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes camera based character recognition system, which is implemented for mobile devices such as PDA and cellular phones with color cameras. First, we have developed camera based character recognition system for PC that includes techniques such as image enhancement, local adaptive binarization and blob coloring to effectively extract character region and remove the noise of camera captured images. Then, we converted the PC based OCR system to the embedded OCR system for cellular phones. Several functions were specially developed since most of mobile telecommunication devices have no real number computing functions and have limitation of memory space. In this paper, we are addressing the related problems and our system mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":419267,"journal":{"name":"29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128968103","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":"A component testability model for verification and measurement","authors":"J. Gao, Ming-Chih Shih","doi":"10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.17","url":null,"abstract":"Since components are the major building blocks for component-based systems, developing high quality components is becoming very critical for in component-based software engineering. To generate high quality components, we must pay attention to component testability to ensure that reusable components not only can be tested by component vendors, but also can be easily validated by component users. Therefore, component testability analysis, verification and measurement become very important research topic in testing components and component-based systems. This paper discusses the component testability in a quantifiable approach based on a component testability analysis model. Engineers can use this model to verify and measure component testability during a component development process. Based on this testability model, the paper discusses component testability verification, and proposes a pentagram model for testability measurement.","PeriodicalId":419267,"journal":{"name":"29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129319536","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":"Situation-awareness for adaptive coordination in service-based systems","authors":"S. Yau, Dazhi Huang, H. Gong, H. Davulcu","doi":"10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.141","url":null,"abstract":"Service-based systems have many applications, including collaborative research and development, e-business, health care, environmental control, military applications, and homeland security. Service coordination is required for these systems to coordinate distributed activities. To achieve adaptive service coordination under changing environment and workload, situation-awareness is needed. In this paper, a model is presented for situation-awareness (SAW) requirements in service-based systems. Based on this model, SAW agents are developed to incorporate situation-awareness and adaptive coordination in service-based systems.","PeriodicalId":419267,"journal":{"name":"29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128807769","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}
Austin Armbruster, M. Gosnell, B. McMillin, M. Crow
{"title":"Power transmission control using distributed max-flow","authors":"Austin Armbruster, M. Gosnell, B. McMillin, M. Crow","doi":"10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.121","url":null,"abstract":"Existing maximum flow algorithms use one processor for all calculations or one processor per vertex in a graph to calculate the maximum possible flow through a graph's vertices. This is not suitable for practical implementation. We extend the max-flow work of Goldberg and Tarjan to a distributed algorithm to calculate maximum flow where the number of processors is less than the number of vertices in a graph. Our algorithm is applied to maximizing electrical flow within a power network where the power grid is modeled as a graph. Error detection measures are included to detect problems in a simulated power network. We show that our algorithm is successful in executing quickly enough to prevent catastrophic power outages.","PeriodicalId":419267,"journal":{"name":"29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125367070","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}