This issue includes four papers, covering performance mutation testing, performance regression localization, fault detection and localization, and defect prediction, respectively. The first paper, by Pedro Delgado-Pérez, Ana Belén Sánchez, Sergio Segura and Inmaculada Medina-Bulo, concerns feasibility of applying performance mutation testing (i.e. applying mutation testing to assess performance tests)

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The IEEE 12th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification & Validation (ICST 2019) was held in Xi'an, China. The aim of the ICST conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners who study the theory, techniques, technologies, and applications that concern all aspects of software testing, verification, and validation of software systems. The program committee rigorously reviewed

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Market demands for faster delivery and higher software quality are progressively becoming more stringent. A key hindrance for software companies to meet those demands is how to test the software due to the intrinsic costs of development, maintenance and evolution of testware, especially since testware should be defined and aligned, with all layers of the system under test (SUT), including all user

Embedded systems have high coupling and dependency among different hardware and software components in heterogeneous layers, which makes location and issue tracking in their testing difficult. Despite these poor verification conditions, even the most important reliability quality verification among embedded system characteristics is verified with insufficient sample size, typical test cases, and general

This paper proposes a generalization of the exponential software reliability model to characterize several factors including fault introduction and time‐varying fault detection rate. The software life cycle is designed based on module structure such as testing effort spent during module testing and detected software faults etc. The resource allocation problem is a critical phase in the testing stage

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This special issue contains extended versions of two papers from the 11th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation & Verification (ICST 2018). ICST strives to provide an open forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners working on software testing to present and discuss the latest research findings, ideas and developments. This was no exception at ICST 2018,

This paper proposes an algebraic system, verification algebra (VA), for reducing the number of component combinations to be verified in multi‐tenant architecture (MTA). MTA is a design architecture used in SaaS (Software‐as‐a‐Service) where a tenant can customize its applications by integrating services already stored in the SaaS databases or newly supplied services. Similar to SaaS, VaaS (Verification‐as‐a‐Service)

According to the reachability–infection–propagation (RIP) model, three conditions must be satisfied for program failure to occur: (1) the defect's location must be reached, (2) the program's state must become infected and (3) the infection must propagate to the output. Weak coincidental correctness (or weak CC) occurs when the program produces the correct output, while condition (1) is satisfied but

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The 10th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST 2017) was held on March 13 to 17, 2017, in Tokyo, Japan. The aim of the ICST conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners who study the theory, techniques, technologies, and applications that concern all aspects of software testing, verification, and validation of software systems. In the main

The article from this special issue was previously published in Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, Volume 29, Issue 4–5, 2019. For completeness we are including the title page of the article below. The full text of the article can be read in Issue 29:4–5 on Wiley Online Library: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/stvr.1701

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This issue of STVR contains two papers that describe automated techniques. Automation has been an important theme in the software engineering research community for many years. In fact, there is an established annual conference (i.e., ASE) devoted to this topic. Many automated techniques have been developed over the years and are likely to remain a major focus of work in software testing, verification

Providing a good user experience on the ever‐increasing number and variety of devices being used to browse the web is a difficult, yet critical, task. With responsive web design, front‐end web developers design web pages so that they dynamically resize and rearrange content to best fit the dimensions of a device's screen. However, when making code modifications to a responsive page, developers can

A performance regression in software is defined as an increase in an application step's response time as a result of code changes. Detecting such regressions can be done using profiling tools; however, investigating their root cause is a mostly‐manual and time‐consuming task. This statement holds true especially when comparing execution timelines , which are dynamic function call trees augmented with

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Due to the ongoing COVID‐19 outbreak, conference virtualization has happened, is happening, and will happen for the recent past, ongoing, and upcoming periods, respectively. An ongoing example of conference virtualization is ICSE 2020, the largest conference in software engineering. ACM has recently formed the ACM Presidential Task Force on What Conferences Can Do to Replace Face‐to‐Face Meetings;

To deliver reliable software, developers may rely on the fault detection capability of test suites. To evaluate this capability, they can apply code coverage metrics before a software release. However, recent research results have shown that these metrics may not provide a solid basis for this evaluation. Moreover, the fixing of a fault has a cost, and not all faults have the same impact regarding

With the constantly growing and changing requirements of app users, web techniques are used in mobile application development for better cross‐platform compatibility and online update. As the embedded web contents gain complexity, debugging web apps become a critical demand. Web replay tools can record program inputs and reproduce the same execution for debugging and performance tuning. However, traditional

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