A case study of black-box testing for embedded software using test automation tool.
INTRODUCTION As a scale of market for the embedded software has grown up, product's quality and reliability hold a key post in the software development process. In 2004, one of the world famous mobile companies did additional after service because of some kinds of software defects. Like...

Experiences with defect prevention.
Experiences with Defect Prevention Defect Prevention is the process of improving quality and productivity by preventing the injection of defects into a product. It consists of four elements integrated into the development process: (1) causal analysis meetings to identify the root cause of defects and suggest preventive actions> (2) an...

Determining the optimal software rejuvenation schedule via semi-Markov decision process.
Abstract: Software rejuvenation is a preventive and proactive maintenance policy that is particularly useful for counteracting the phenomenon of software aging. In this study we consider an operational software system with multiple degradations and derive the optimal software rejuvenation policy minimizing the expected operation cost per unit time in...

The Non-Aristotelian Clone.
Today, many historians say the clone controversy began long ago on planet Earth when scientists cloned a sheep named "Lambchop." Evidence cited includes laws to prevent human cloning passed in 1999 by the congress of the then USA. These laws, propelled into existence by anticloning hysteria, did not stop cloning....

Software problems leading to false-positive results.
Hybrid scanners that combine positron emission tomography with computed tomography are falsely indicating coronary artery disease in as many as 40 percent of patients, according to a study in the July 3 issue of the Journal of NuclearAledicine. Researchers attributed the false-positives to problems with the PET-CT software. ...

Back(end) to the future: many fulfillment, teleservices and payment processing companies are tapping technology to help marketers complete the sale. Learn what you should be looking for to see if your back-end partners are measuring up.
Chris Rebholz says his grandfather used to say, "Count your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves." "There's no greater axiom in DRTV," adds Rebholz, president of Christopher Morgan Fulfillment Services in New Berlin, Wis. Rebholz isn't convinced DRTV folks are counting their pennies, the metaphor for...

Preface.
Total sales of software worldwide exceed $200 billion annually, and it has been estimated that software errors cost the United States economy $59.5 billion, or .6 percent of the gross domestic product, each year. Despite this, the practice of mature software engineering is still, in many ways, a goal...

Optimal rejuvenation scheduling of distributed computation based on dynamic programming.
Abstract: Recently, a complementary approach to handle transient software failures, called software rejuvenation, is becoming popular as a proactive fault management technique in operational software systems. In this study, we develop the optimal scheduling algorithms to trigger software rejuvenation in distributed computation circumstance. In particular, we focus on two...

Use of first law energy balance as a screening tool for building energy data, part I--methodology.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a new methodology for screening measured data from buildings where heating, cooling, and electricity consumption are separately recorded. It defines energy balance load ([E.sub.BL]) as the difference between the heating requirements plus the electric gains in the building and the cooling coil loads....

Comparison of software reliability assessment methods for open source software and reliability assessment tool.
Abstract: We propose software reliability assessment methods for concurrent distributed system development by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Also, we make a comparison between the inflection S-shaped software reliability growth model and the other models based on a nonhomogeneous Poisson process applied to reliability assessment of the entire system...