Small companies face barriers to either implement or enhance their software testing processes due to the lack of experts in testing, the lack of resources and difficulties to adapt testing-related maturity models to a ...

Context: A well-defined testing process is necessary to ensure that the required activities are conducted effectively, supported by maturity models such as TMMi. Even so, for this activities results have real impact on the ...

In general, small software companies use informal ways to quality control of their software development. This situation motivates companies to incorporate a software testing process to increase the quality of their ...

Running automated tests is an important task for software quality. In the context of Business Process Management applications (BPM), however, the software testing is rarely addressed. In a survey on BPM application ...

In this work we focus on tests for the parameter of an endogenous variable in a weakly identi ed instrumental variable regressionmodel. We propose a new unbiasedness restriction for weighted average power (WAP) tests ...

Over the past 30 years, a large amount of research has been conducted to develop an automatic (or semiautomatic) system for the radiographic detection and classification of discontinuities in continuous welds. There are ...

In a testing process, the design, selection, creation and execution of test cases is a very time-consuming and error-prone task when done manually, since suitable and effective test cases must be obtained from the requirements. ...