The document contains a sample midterm examination for an introduction to software engineering course. It includes multiple questions asking students to draw diagrams related to an automated auction system and a car door locking system. For question 1, students are asked to draw collaboration and class diagrams modeling an automated auction system that uses email to communicate with bidders. For question 2, students are asked to draw use case, statechart, and class diagrams for a car door locking system called VeriLock.
- The question describes a software controller being developed for a coffee vending machine. It has slots for coins, buttons for change return and selecting three types of coffee.
- Requirements include accepting correct payment, dispensing the selected coffee, and returning correct change. Non-functional requirements include reliability, maintainability and real-time response.
- Possible models include use case diagrams, state diagrams and sequence diagrams. Testing would involve unit testing components, integration testing interactions, and system testing end-to-end functionality from payment to delivery.
The document is the midterm examination for an introduction to software engineering course. It contains instructions for the exam, which has multiple choice and essay questions. Students are to write their name, ID, and signature on the cover page and top of the exam booklet. The exam is closed book and has a duration of 75 minutes.
This document contains instructions for a final examination in an introduction to software engineering course. It provides the date, time, location of the exam, as well as instructions that students are to write their name, student ID, and signature on the cover and top of the exam. It also states that the exam is closed book and notes, calculators are permitted, and to circle one answer for multiple choice questions. The exam contains two sections - a multiple choice section and an essay question section where students should write their answers in a separate booklet.
A Search-based Testing Approach for XML Injection Vulnerabilities in Web Appl...Lionel Briand
The document describes a search-based testing approach for detecting XML injection vulnerabilities in web applications. The approach uses genetic algorithms to search the input space to generate malicious XML outputs defined as test objectives (TOs). The approach was evaluated on four subjects and found to be highly effective at detecting vulnerabilities, achieving 100% TO coverage. Random search was not effective, covering zero TOs. The approach was efficient, taking 5-32 minutes per TO. Input validation decreased coverage while fewer inputs and a restricted alphabet increased efficiency.
Feature Selection Techniques for Software Fault Prediction (Summary)SungdoGu
This document discusses feature selection techniques for software fault prediction. It begins by motivating the need for feature selection when building defect prediction models using large sets of software metrics. It then describes common feature selection techniques like filter and wrapper methods. It provides examples of widely used software metrics like CK and McCabe & Halstead metrics. The document also analyzes threshold-based feature selection and evaluates its stability. Finally, it proposes a hybrid feature selection model and demonstrates its effectiveness on a dataset from the Eclipse project.
Evaluating Model Testing and Model Checking for Finding Requirements Violatio...Lionel Briand
Model checking and model testing were compared for finding requirements violations in Simulink models. Model checking uses formal methods to exhaustively verify properties, but may not be applicable to some model constructs. Model testing uses meta-heuristic search to dynamically execute models and identify failures. Both approaches were applied to an industrial Simulink benchmark containing 11 models and 92 requirements. Model testing found violations of 40 requirements, while model checking could exhaustively prove 41 requirements and found violations of 23 requirements, but could not handle one of the models.
Metamorphic Security Testing for Web SystemsLionel Briand
Metamorphic testing is proposed to address the oracle problem in web security testing. Relations capture necessary properties between multiple inputs and outputs that must hold when a system is not vulnerable. Experiments on commercial and open source systems show the approach has high sensitivity (58.33-83.33%) and specificity (99.43-99.50%), detecting vulnerabilities without many false alarms. Extensive experiments with 22 relations achieved similar results for Jenkins and Joomla.
The document summarizes a dissertation defense about adaptive bug prediction by analyzing project history. It discusses the motivation for leveraging project history and software configuration management data for bug prediction. It also describes creating a corpus by identifying bug-fix changes and bug-introducing changes from commits. The dissertation proposes using a "bug cache" to predict likely locations of future bugs based on past bug occurrences.
- The question describes a software controller being developed for a coffee vending machine. It has slots for coins, buttons for change return and selecting three types of coffee.
- Requirements include accepting correct payment, dispensing the selected coffee, and returning correct change. Non-functional requirements include reliability, maintainability and real-time response.
- Possible models include use case diagrams, state diagrams and sequence diagrams. Testing would involve unit testing components, integration testing interactions, and system testing end-to-end functionality from payment to delivery.
The document is the midterm examination for an introduction to software engineering course. It contains instructions for the exam, which has multiple choice and essay questions. Students are to write their name, ID, and signature on the cover page and top of the exam booklet. The exam is closed book and has a duration of 75 minutes.
This document contains instructions for a final examination in an introduction to software engineering course. It provides the date, time, location of the exam, as well as instructions that students are to write their name, student ID, and signature on the cover and top of the exam. It also states that the exam is closed book and notes, calculators are permitted, and to circle one answer for multiple choice questions. The exam contains two sections - a multiple choice section and an essay question section where students should write their answers in a separate booklet.
A Search-based Testing Approach for XML Injection Vulnerabilities in Web Appl...Lionel Briand
The document describes a search-based testing approach for detecting XML injection vulnerabilities in web applications. The approach uses genetic algorithms to search the input space to generate malicious XML outputs defined as test objectives (TOs). The approach was evaluated on four subjects and found to be highly effective at detecting vulnerabilities, achieving 100% TO coverage. Random search was not effective, covering zero TOs. The approach was efficient, taking 5-32 minutes per TO. Input validation decreased coverage while fewer inputs and a restricted alphabet increased efficiency.
Feature Selection Techniques for Software Fault Prediction (Summary)SungdoGu
This document discusses feature selection techniques for software fault prediction. It begins by motivating the need for feature selection when building defect prediction models using large sets of software metrics. It then describes common feature selection techniques like filter and wrapper methods. It provides examples of widely used software metrics like CK and McCabe & Halstead metrics. The document also analyzes threshold-based feature selection and evaluates its stability. Finally, it proposes a hybrid feature selection model and demonstrates its effectiveness on a dataset from the Eclipse project.
Evaluating Model Testing and Model Checking for Finding Requirements Violatio...Lionel Briand
Model checking and model testing were compared for finding requirements violations in Simulink models. Model checking uses formal methods to exhaustively verify properties, but may not be applicable to some model constructs. Model testing uses meta-heuristic search to dynamically execute models and identify failures. Both approaches were applied to an industrial Simulink benchmark containing 11 models and 92 requirements. Model testing found violations of 40 requirements, while model checking could exhaustively prove 41 requirements and found violations of 23 requirements, but could not handle one of the models.
Metamorphic Security Testing for Web SystemsLionel Briand
Metamorphic testing is proposed to address the oracle problem in web security testing. Relations capture necessary properties between multiple inputs and outputs that must hold when a system is not vulnerable. Experiments on commercial and open source systems show the approach has high sensitivity (58.33-83.33%) and specificity (99.43-99.50%), detecting vulnerabilities without many false alarms. Extensive experiments with 22 relations achieved similar results for Jenkins and Joomla.
The document summarizes a dissertation defense about adaptive bug prediction by analyzing project history. It discusses the motivation for leveraging project history and software configuration management data for bug prediction. It also describes creating a corpus by identifying bug-fix changes and bug-introducing changes from commits. The dissertation proposes using a "bug cache" to predict likely locations of future bugs based on past bug occurrences.
STAR: Stack Trace based Automatic Crash ReproductionSung Kim
This document summarizes Ning Chen's PhD thesis defense on STAR, a stack trace based automatic crash reproduction framework. The outline includes motivation and related work, approaches of STAR including crash precondition computation and input model generation, evaluation study, challenges and future work, and contributions. STAR aims to efficiently reproduce crashes using only stack traces by performing backward symbolic execution to optimize crash precondition computation and address object creation challenges in reproducing object-oriented crashes.
The adoption of machine learning techniques for software defect prediction: A...RAKESH RANA
The adoption of machine learning techniques for software defect prediction: An initial industrial validation
Presented at:
11th Joint Conference On Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, JCKBSE, Volgograd, Russia, 2014
Get full text of publication at:
http://rakeshrana.website/index.php/work/publications/
This document summarizes Martin Pinzger's research on predicting buggy methods using software repository mining. The key points are:
1. Pinzger and colleagues conducted experiments on 21 Java projects to predict buggy methods using source code and change metrics. Change metrics like authors and method histories performed best with up to 96% accuracy.
2. Predicting buggy methods at a finer granularity than files can save manual inspection and testing effort. Accuracy decreases as fewer methods are predicted but change metrics maintain higher precision.
3. Case studies on two classes show that method-level prediction achieves over 82% precision compared to only 17-42% at the file level. This demonstrates the benefit of finer-
Can we predict the quality of spectrum-based fault localization?Lionel Briand
The document discusses predicting the effectiveness of spectrum-based fault localization techniques. It proposes defining metrics to capture aspects of source code, test executions, test suites, and faults. A dataset of 341 instances with 70 variables is generated from Defects4J projects, classifying instances as "effective" or "ineffective" based on fault ranking. Analysis identifies the most influential metrics, finding a combination of static, dynamic, and test metrics can construct a prediction model with excellent discrimination, achieving an AUC of 0.86-0.88. The results suggest effectiveness depends more on code and test complexity than fault type/location, and entangled dynamic call graphs hinder localization.
Software Defect Prediction on Unlabeled DatasetsSung Kim
The document describes techniques for software defect prediction when labeled training data is unavailable. It proposes Transfer Defect Learning (TCA+) to improve cross-project defect prediction by normalizing data distributions between source and target projects. For projects with heterogeneous metrics, it introduces Heterogeneous Defect Prediction (HDP) which matches similar metrics between source and target to build cross-project prediction models. It also discusses CLAMI for defect prediction using only unlabeled data without human effort. The techniques are evaluated on open source projects to demonstrate their effectiveness compared to traditional cross-project and within-project prediction.
Search-driven String Constraint Solving for Vulnerability DetectionLionel Briand
The document presents a search-driven approach to solving string constraints for vulnerability detection. State-of-the-art solvers like Z3-str2 have limitations in supporting complex string operations. The proposed approach decomposes constraints and leverages an automata-based solver to reduce the search space, before using a search-based solver to find satisfying assignments. An evaluation on 43 programs shows the approach significantly improves vulnerability detection effectiveness over baseline solvers, with affordable time costs. The automata-based solver plays a key role in the effectiveness of the search-based procedure.
ESTIMATING HANDLING TIME OF SOFTWARE DEFECTScsandit
The problem of accurately predicting handling time for software defects is of great practical
importance. However, it is difficult to suggest a practical generic algorithm for such estimates,
due in part to the limited information available when opening a defect and the lack of a uniform
standard for defect structure. We suggest an algorithm to address these challenges that is
implementable over different defect management tools. Our algorithm uses machine learning
regression techniques to predict the handling time of defects based on past behaviour of similar
defects. The algorithm relies only on a minimal set of assumptions about the structure of the
input data. We show how an implementation of this algorithm predicts defect handling time with
promising accuracy results
Scalable Software Testing and Verification of Non-Functional Properties throu...Lionel Briand
This document discusses scalable software testing and verification of non-functional properties through heuristic search and optimization. It describes several projects with industry partners that use metaheuristic search techniques like hill climbing and genetic algorithms to generate test cases for non-functional properties of complex, configurable software systems. The techniques address issues of scalability and practicality for engineers by using dimensionality reduction, surrogate modeling, and dynamically adjusting the search strategy in different regions of the input space. The results provided worst-case scenarios more effectively than random testing alone.
Continuous test suite failure predictionssuser94f898
This document presents research on predicting whether a test suite will pass or fail given a code change. It introduces the problem of continuous test suite failure prediction and presents an approach that extracts 44 features from code changes, development history, and tests. Experimental results on a dataset of 15,000 test runs show the best model (LightGBM) achieves an AUC of 0.836. An analysis of feature importance finds test features and experience features are most important. A cost model is also presented to evaluate when prediction could save costs compared to always running all tests.
A practical guide for using Statistical Tests to assess Randomized Algorithms...Lionel Briand
This document provides guidance on using statistical tests to properly evaluate randomized algorithms in software engineering. It discusses challenges in determining if a technique is better than others and the need for multiple runs to avoid conclusions based solely on randomness. Statistical tests help identify if enough runs were performed but may find tiny differences significant with sufficient runs. The document advocates more runs and statistical tests to validate results rather than relying on luck, and presents examples where this was crucial, including search-based test generation and vulnerability testing techniques.
The document describes a scenario where a systems analyst has been hired to design a new ICT system for Dar Es Salaam High School after several smaller schools merged. The current systems need to be analyzed and a new system designed that can produce hundreds of reports quickly and find individual records efficiently. As part of the design process, the analyst will need to include key items and factors that influence their choice. Technical and program documentation will also need to be created to support the new system design.
Analyzing Changes in Software Systems From ChangeDistiller to FMDiffMartin Pinzger
Software systems continuously change and developers spent a large portion of their time in keeping track and understanding changes and their effects. Current development tools provide only limited support. Most of all, they track changes in source files only on the level of textual lines lacking semantic and context information on changes. Developers frequently need to reconstruct this information manually which is a time consuming and error prone task. In this talk, I present three techniques to address this problem by extracting detailed syntactical information from changes in various source files. I start with introducing ChangeDistiller, a tool and approach to extract information on source code changes on the level of ASTs. Next, I present the WSDLDiff approach to extract information on changes in web services interface description files. Finally, I present FMDiff, an approach to extract changes from feature models defined with the linux Kconfig language. For each approach I report on cases studies and experiments to highlight the benefits of our techniques. I also point out several research opportunities opened by our techniques and tools, and the detailed data on changes extracted by them.
This document analyzes different model validation techniques (MVTs) used to estimate the performance of defect prediction models. It finds that out-of-sample bootstrap validation produces the least biased performance estimates while ordinary bootstrap validation produces the most stable estimates. Considering both bias and variance, techniques like ordinary bootstrap and out-of-sample bootstrap perform best by providing a balance of low bias and variance in their performance estimates.
Incremental Reconfiguration of Product Specific Use Case Models for Evolving ...Lionel Briand
1. The document discusses an approach for incrementally reconfiguring product-specific use case models when configuration decisions evolve over time.
2. Product-specific models are regenerated by focusing only on the changed decisions and their side effects, preserving unaffected parts and existing trace links.
3. The approach involves matching decision model elements before and after changes, calculating differences, and using these to reconfigure use case diagrams and specifications while generating an impact report.
A Survey of functional verification techniquesIJSRD
In this paper, we present a survey of various techniques used in functional verification of industry hardware designs. Although the use of formal verification techniques has been increasing over time, there is still a need for an immediate practical solution resulting in an increased interest in hybrid verification techniques. Hybrid techniques combine formal and informal (traditional simulation based) techniques to take the advantage of both the worlds. A typical hybrid technique aims to address the verification bottleneck by enhancing the state space coverage.
System Testing of Timing Requirements based on Use Cases and Timed AutomataLionel Briand
The document describes a technique called TAUC that combines use case specifications and timed automata to automatically generate test cases for validating timing requirements of safety-critical systems. TAUC models the system functionality and environment as timed automata, identifies test inputs from use case scenarios to trigger state transitions, and employs a coverage-based and metaheuristic search approach to generate a test suite that stresses timing constraints. An evaluation on a case study shows TAUC achieves a 91% fault detection rate, significantly outperforming random and manual testing.
Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems: Diversity-driven StrategiesLionel Briand
Lionel Briand discusses strategies for testing cyber-physical systems using diversity-driven approaches. He outlines challenges in verifying controllers and decision-making components in cyber-physical systems due to large input spaces and expensive model execution. Briand proposes maximizing diversity of test cases to improve fault detection. He describes using diversity of input signals, output signals, and failure patterns to generate test cases. Search algorithms are used to find test cases that maximize diversity or reveal specific failure patterns. The strategies are shown to significantly outperform coverage-based and random testing on Simulink models.
Experiments on Design Pattern DiscoveryTim Menzies
The document describes experiments conducted to discover design patterns from source code. It outlines the approach taken by DP-Miner tool, presents experiment data on four Java systems, and evaluates results by calculating precision and recall values. Benchmarks are lacking for accurately evaluating design pattern discovery techniques.
With the rise of software systems ranging from personal assistance to the nation's facilities, software defects become more critical concerns as they can cost millions of dollar as well as impact human lives. Yet, at the breakneck pace of rapid software development settings (like DevOps paradigm), the Quality Assurance (QA) practices nowadays are still time-consuming. Continuous Analytics for Software Quality (i.e., defect prediction models) can help development teams prioritize their QA resources and chart better quality improvement plan to avoid pitfalls in the past that lead to future software defects. Due to the need of specialists to design and configure a large number of configurations (e.g., data quality, data preprocessing, classification techniques, interpretation techniques), a set of practical guidelines for developing accurate and interpretable defect models has not been well-developed.
The ultimate goal of my research aims to (1) provide practical guidelines on how to develop accurate and interpretable defect models for non-specialists; (2) develop an intelligible defect model that offer suggestions how to improve both software quality and processes; and (3) integrate defect models into a real-world practice of rapid development cycles like CI/CD settings. My research project is expected to provide significant benefits including the reduction of software defects and operating costs, while accelerating development productivity for building software systems in many of Australia's critical domains such as Smart Cities and e-Health.
Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for their Effectiveness i...IRJET Journal
1. The document presents a comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for predicting customer churn in the telecom industry.
2. Logistic regression, random forest, and balanced random forest classifiers were evaluated on a dataset of 25,000 customers described by 111 variables.
3. The balanced logistic regression model that used SMOTE to address class imbalance achieved the best performance with an area under the ROC curve of 0.861, accurately predicting churn with an accuracy of 77% and recall of 76% on the test set.
The document discusses various behavioral diagrams in UML including use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, state machine diagrams and activity diagrams. It provides details on how to model scenarios and interactions using these diagrams, including modeling conditional paths, asynchronous messages, procedural vs flat sequencing, and how interaction diagrams relate to use cases at different levels of abstraction.
STAR: Stack Trace based Automatic Crash ReproductionSung Kim
This document summarizes Ning Chen's PhD thesis defense on STAR, a stack trace based automatic crash reproduction framework. The outline includes motivation and related work, approaches of STAR including crash precondition computation and input model generation, evaluation study, challenges and future work, and contributions. STAR aims to efficiently reproduce crashes using only stack traces by performing backward symbolic execution to optimize crash precondition computation and address object creation challenges in reproducing object-oriented crashes.
The adoption of machine learning techniques for software defect prediction: A...RAKESH RANA
The adoption of machine learning techniques for software defect prediction: An initial industrial validation
Presented at:
11th Joint Conference On Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, JCKBSE, Volgograd, Russia, 2014
Get full text of publication at:
http://rakeshrana.website/index.php/work/publications/
This document summarizes Martin Pinzger's research on predicting buggy methods using software repository mining. The key points are:
1. Pinzger and colleagues conducted experiments on 21 Java projects to predict buggy methods using source code and change metrics. Change metrics like authors and method histories performed best with up to 96% accuracy.
2. Predicting buggy methods at a finer granularity than files can save manual inspection and testing effort. Accuracy decreases as fewer methods are predicted but change metrics maintain higher precision.
3. Case studies on two classes show that method-level prediction achieves over 82% precision compared to only 17-42% at the file level. This demonstrates the benefit of finer-
Can we predict the quality of spectrum-based fault localization?Lionel Briand
The document discusses predicting the effectiveness of spectrum-based fault localization techniques. It proposes defining metrics to capture aspects of source code, test executions, test suites, and faults. A dataset of 341 instances with 70 variables is generated from Defects4J projects, classifying instances as "effective" or "ineffective" based on fault ranking. Analysis identifies the most influential metrics, finding a combination of static, dynamic, and test metrics can construct a prediction model with excellent discrimination, achieving an AUC of 0.86-0.88. The results suggest effectiveness depends more on code and test complexity than fault type/location, and entangled dynamic call graphs hinder localization.
Software Defect Prediction on Unlabeled DatasetsSung Kim
The document describes techniques for software defect prediction when labeled training data is unavailable. It proposes Transfer Defect Learning (TCA+) to improve cross-project defect prediction by normalizing data distributions between source and target projects. For projects with heterogeneous metrics, it introduces Heterogeneous Defect Prediction (HDP) which matches similar metrics between source and target to build cross-project prediction models. It also discusses CLAMI for defect prediction using only unlabeled data without human effort. The techniques are evaluated on open source projects to demonstrate their effectiveness compared to traditional cross-project and within-project prediction.
Search-driven String Constraint Solving for Vulnerability DetectionLionel Briand
The document presents a search-driven approach to solving string constraints for vulnerability detection. State-of-the-art solvers like Z3-str2 have limitations in supporting complex string operations. The proposed approach decomposes constraints and leverages an automata-based solver to reduce the search space, before using a search-based solver to find satisfying assignments. An evaluation on 43 programs shows the approach significantly improves vulnerability detection effectiveness over baseline solvers, with affordable time costs. The automata-based solver plays a key role in the effectiveness of the search-based procedure.
ESTIMATING HANDLING TIME OF SOFTWARE DEFECTScsandit
The problem of accurately predicting handling time for software defects is of great practical
importance. However, it is difficult to suggest a practical generic algorithm for such estimates,
due in part to the limited information available when opening a defect and the lack of a uniform
standard for defect structure. We suggest an algorithm to address these challenges that is
implementable over different defect management tools. Our algorithm uses machine learning
regression techniques to predict the handling time of defects based on past behaviour of similar
defects. The algorithm relies only on a minimal set of assumptions about the structure of the
input data. We show how an implementation of this algorithm predicts defect handling time with
promising accuracy results
Scalable Software Testing and Verification of Non-Functional Properties throu...Lionel Briand
This document discusses scalable software testing and verification of non-functional properties through heuristic search and optimization. It describes several projects with industry partners that use metaheuristic search techniques like hill climbing and genetic algorithms to generate test cases for non-functional properties of complex, configurable software systems. The techniques address issues of scalability and practicality for engineers by using dimensionality reduction, surrogate modeling, and dynamically adjusting the search strategy in different regions of the input space. The results provided worst-case scenarios more effectively than random testing alone.
Continuous test suite failure predictionssuser94f898
This document presents research on predicting whether a test suite will pass or fail given a code change. It introduces the problem of continuous test suite failure prediction and presents an approach that extracts 44 features from code changes, development history, and tests. Experimental results on a dataset of 15,000 test runs show the best model (LightGBM) achieves an AUC of 0.836. An analysis of feature importance finds test features and experience features are most important. A cost model is also presented to evaluate when prediction could save costs compared to always running all tests.
A practical guide for using Statistical Tests to assess Randomized Algorithms...Lionel Briand
This document provides guidance on using statistical tests to properly evaluate randomized algorithms in software engineering. It discusses challenges in determining if a technique is better than others and the need for multiple runs to avoid conclusions based solely on randomness. Statistical tests help identify if enough runs were performed but may find tiny differences significant with sufficient runs. The document advocates more runs and statistical tests to validate results rather than relying on luck, and presents examples where this was crucial, including search-based test generation and vulnerability testing techniques.
The document describes a scenario where a systems analyst has been hired to design a new ICT system for Dar Es Salaam High School after several smaller schools merged. The current systems need to be analyzed and a new system designed that can produce hundreds of reports quickly and find individual records efficiently. As part of the design process, the analyst will need to include key items and factors that influence their choice. Technical and program documentation will also need to be created to support the new system design.
Analyzing Changes in Software Systems From ChangeDistiller to FMDiffMartin Pinzger
Software systems continuously change and developers spent a large portion of their time in keeping track and understanding changes and their effects. Current development tools provide only limited support. Most of all, they track changes in source files only on the level of textual lines lacking semantic and context information on changes. Developers frequently need to reconstruct this information manually which is a time consuming and error prone task. In this talk, I present three techniques to address this problem by extracting detailed syntactical information from changes in various source files. I start with introducing ChangeDistiller, a tool and approach to extract information on source code changes on the level of ASTs. Next, I present the WSDLDiff approach to extract information on changes in web services interface description files. Finally, I present FMDiff, an approach to extract changes from feature models defined with the linux Kconfig language. For each approach I report on cases studies and experiments to highlight the benefits of our techniques. I also point out several research opportunities opened by our techniques and tools, and the detailed data on changes extracted by them.
This document analyzes different model validation techniques (MVTs) used to estimate the performance of defect prediction models. It finds that out-of-sample bootstrap validation produces the least biased performance estimates while ordinary bootstrap validation produces the most stable estimates. Considering both bias and variance, techniques like ordinary bootstrap and out-of-sample bootstrap perform best by providing a balance of low bias and variance in their performance estimates.
Incremental Reconfiguration of Product Specific Use Case Models for Evolving ...Lionel Briand
1. The document discusses an approach for incrementally reconfiguring product-specific use case models when configuration decisions evolve over time.
2. Product-specific models are regenerated by focusing only on the changed decisions and their side effects, preserving unaffected parts and existing trace links.
3. The approach involves matching decision model elements before and after changes, calculating differences, and using these to reconfigure use case diagrams and specifications while generating an impact report.
A Survey of functional verification techniquesIJSRD
In this paper, we present a survey of various techniques used in functional verification of industry hardware designs. Although the use of formal verification techniques has been increasing over time, there is still a need for an immediate practical solution resulting in an increased interest in hybrid verification techniques. Hybrid techniques combine formal and informal (traditional simulation based) techniques to take the advantage of both the worlds. A typical hybrid technique aims to address the verification bottleneck by enhancing the state space coverage.
System Testing of Timing Requirements based on Use Cases and Timed AutomataLionel Briand
The document describes a technique called TAUC that combines use case specifications and timed automata to automatically generate test cases for validating timing requirements of safety-critical systems. TAUC models the system functionality and environment as timed automata, identifies test inputs from use case scenarios to trigger state transitions, and employs a coverage-based and metaheuristic search approach to generate a test suite that stresses timing constraints. An evaluation on a case study shows TAUC achieves a 91% fault detection rate, significantly outperforming random and manual testing.
Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems: Diversity-driven StrategiesLionel Briand
Lionel Briand discusses strategies for testing cyber-physical systems using diversity-driven approaches. He outlines challenges in verifying controllers and decision-making components in cyber-physical systems due to large input spaces and expensive model execution. Briand proposes maximizing diversity of test cases to improve fault detection. He describes using diversity of input signals, output signals, and failure patterns to generate test cases. Search algorithms are used to find test cases that maximize diversity or reveal specific failure patterns. The strategies are shown to significantly outperform coverage-based and random testing on Simulink models.
Experiments on Design Pattern DiscoveryTim Menzies
The document describes experiments conducted to discover design patterns from source code. It outlines the approach taken by DP-Miner tool, presents experiment data on four Java systems, and evaluates results by calculating precision and recall values. Benchmarks are lacking for accurately evaluating design pattern discovery techniques.
With the rise of software systems ranging from personal assistance to the nation's facilities, software defects become more critical concerns as they can cost millions of dollar as well as impact human lives. Yet, at the breakneck pace of rapid software development settings (like DevOps paradigm), the Quality Assurance (QA) practices nowadays are still time-consuming. Continuous Analytics for Software Quality (i.e., defect prediction models) can help development teams prioritize their QA resources and chart better quality improvement plan to avoid pitfalls in the past that lead to future software defects. Due to the need of specialists to design and configure a large number of configurations (e.g., data quality, data preprocessing, classification techniques, interpretation techniques), a set of practical guidelines for developing accurate and interpretable defect models has not been well-developed.
The ultimate goal of my research aims to (1) provide practical guidelines on how to develop accurate and interpretable defect models for non-specialists; (2) develop an intelligible defect model that offer suggestions how to improve both software quality and processes; and (3) integrate defect models into a real-world practice of rapid development cycles like CI/CD settings. My research project is expected to provide significant benefits including the reduction of software defects and operating costs, while accelerating development productivity for building software systems in many of Australia's critical domains such as Smart Cities and e-Health.
Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for their Effectiveness i...IRJET Journal
1. The document presents a comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for predicting customer churn in the telecom industry.
2. Logistic regression, random forest, and balanced random forest classifiers were evaluated on a dataset of 25,000 customers described by 111 variables.
3. The balanced logistic regression model that used SMOTE to address class imbalance achieved the best performance with an area under the ROC curve of 0.861, accurately predicting churn with an accuracy of 77% and recall of 76% on the test set.
The document discusses various behavioral diagrams in UML including use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, state machine diagrams and activity diagrams. It provides details on how to model scenarios and interactions using these diagrams, including modeling conditional paths, asynchronous messages, procedural vs flat sequencing, and how interaction diagrams relate to use cases at different levels of abstraction.
Automatic Analyzing System for Packet Testing and Fault MappingIRJET Journal
This document proposes an Automatic Analyzing System for Packet Testing and Fault Mapping. The system would read router configurations and generate a minimum set of test packets to check every link and rule in the network. Test packets would be sent periodically, and any detected failures would trigger fault localization. The system uses symbolic execution, a technique from compilers, to check more general network properties than just basic reachability. It aims to track possible packet field values as packets travel through the network. This approach could help automate network testing and debugging, which are currently difficult tasks relying on network administrators' expertise.
This document outlines the phases of developing an online shopping system, including project planning, modeling requirements through UML diagrams, software configuration management, and testing. Key modules include login, viewing and adding products, and updating quantities. The system allows customers to purchase products and administrators to manage the database. Programming is done in Visual Basic using forms and scripts to implement the system functionality.
This document outlines the phases of developing an online shopping system, including project planning, modeling requirements through UML diagrams, software configuration management, and testing. Key modules include login, viewing and adding products, and updating quantities. The system allows customers to purchase products and administrators to manage the database. Programming is done in Visual Basic using forms and scripts to implement the system functionality.
This white paper examines the key considerations for performance testing card applications. It discusses a phased approach including component-level, end-to-end, and joint testing. Volumetric analysis and establishing workload matrices are important to simulate real transactions. Triggers for performance testing include new modules, products, increased volumes, or code changes. Challenges include simulating real scenarios at scale and coordinating across stakeholders. Risks involve tool and environment limitations impacting test quality and results.
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IRJET - Analysis & Study of E-Procurement System in Current ScenarioIRJET Journal
This document summarizes a research paper that analyzes e-procurement systems and online auctions. It begins with an abstract that outlines the goal of analyzing current auction forms and issues like developing effective auction systems and predicting final bid prices. It then covers sections that review the introduction of online auctions, prior literature on auction mechanisms and structures, the proposed system design including modules for authentication, administration, sellers and buyers, advantages over traditional auctions, problems addressed, and conclusions. The document provides details on the technical aspects and theoretical underpinnings of online auction systems.
"Multilayer perceptron (MLP) is a technique of feed
forward artificial neural network using back
propagation learning method to classify the target
variable used for supervised learning. It consists of multiple layers and non-linear activation allowing it to distinguish data that is not linearly separable."
Assignment Based on two topics:-
1.SRS Library Management`
2. Risks in designing a software
Made by :-
RAJAT MITTAL
JK INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD
As part of our team's enrollment for Data Science Super Specialization course under UpX Academy, we submitted many projects for our final assessments, one of them was Telecom Churn Analysis Model.
The input data was provided by UpX academy and language we used is R. As part of the project, our main objective was :-
-> To predict Customer Churn.
-> To Highlight the main variables/factors influencing Customer Churn.
-> To Use various ML algorithms to build prediction models, evaluate the accuracy and performance of these models.
-> Finding out the best model for our business case & providing executive Summary.
To address the mentioned business problem, we tried to follow a thorough approach. We did a detailed level Exploratory Data Analysis which consists of various Box Plots, Bar Plots etc..
Further we tried our best to build as many Classification models possible which fits our business case (Logistic Regression/kNN/Decision Trees/Random Forest/SVM) and also tried to touch Cox Hazard Survival analysis Model. Later for every model we tried to boost their performances by applying various performance tuning techniques.
As we all are still into our learning mode w.r.t these concepts & starting new, please feel free to provide feedback on our work. Any suggestions are most welcome... :)
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1. Use case is a type of tool that is used for analyzing systems in order to identify, organize and clarify systems and their requirements. A use case diagram will thus be defined as a graphical presentation of the elements of a system and how these elements interact in performing the required objectives.
Use case has two types of actors:
Primary actors. These are the ones that the system shall provide services to. They include customers.
Secondary actors are those that manage the system in providing services to the customers, and they include system administrators.
2. <<include>> relationship is used in extraction of use case duplicated use case fragments in multiple use cases. An example is where a user accesses the ATM. The first step is pin, which then grants them access to main menu.
<<extend>> relationship applies where a conditional step is to be added to another use case step that is first class, and is not necessarily a step requirement. An example is when a user in an ATM wants to monitor their accounts. Once the main menu is provided, he or she would be able to monitor the balance, and another option of withdrawing would be an extension or addition to the base use class.
3. Encapsulation is the process of combining data and functions of a program into one component. It is used in protecting codes and data from being accessed randomly by other codes that are defined outside the class. An example in java is where getters and setters are used by the public methods in order to access class fields from outside the java.
Information hiding is the process of differentiating design functions and decisions in a computer program which are vulnerable to change, from modification by other programs. An example is where a programmer decides to create an application for managing a database. The programmer retains the information to modify the program while only releasing the part of the program used to access basic database functions to the public.
Polymorphism refers to the use of one interface to access various entities of different types. An example of polymorphism is where various data types are defined for a particular function, and the computation or data modification done using the best data type method among those defined.
Data abstraction is a methodology used in defining the methods of interaction with the system, starting from easiest tending to the most complex interaction method, with the very difficult ones suppressed. An example is where a programmer inputs data for coding, all the data input is basically plain, and the complex part of data representation by the code is not portrayed on the screen for the programmer.
4. Difference between USDP and Waterfall life Cycles.
In USDP, the stages followed from analysis to testing, are conducted in iterative and concurrent manner while in Waterfall, these processes are done in sequ.
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Midterm Exam Solutions Fall02
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
ECSE 321 - Introduction to Software Engineering
Midterm Examination
Oct. 31, 2002, 1:05pm-2:25pm
Prof. Radu Negulescu
SAMPLE SOLUTIONS
Question 1. You are developing an automated auction system that uses e-mail to communicate with the bidders.
The bidders log on prior to an auction by sending e-mail to the system. The system communicates the starting
price of an item to all logged-on bidders. The bidders can offer a purchase price equal to or larger than the current
price of the item. The system accepts the highest offer that arrives within a predetermined delay, sets the current
price according to the accepted offer, and conveys the new price to all logged on bidders. If there are no new
offers within the predetermined delay, the system issues two warnings by e-mail to all bidders and, if there are no
further offers, the system declares the item to be sold to the bidder who made the last accepted offer.
Assume the delay for communication by e-mail is much smaller than the pre-determined delay for accepting an
offer; and, registration of items and execution of purchase transactions are outside the scope of the system.
(a) Draw a collaboration diagram for an auction scenario following the description above. [5 marks]
[Marker: Ren Wu]
aB id der
A uction System
1. L og on
3. Initial P rice
5. B id
6. C urrent P rice
8. Issue First
W arning
10. Issue S econd
W arning
12. C lose A uction
2. L og on
4. Initial P rice
7. C urrent P rice
9. Issue First
W arning
11. Issue S econd
W arning
13. C lose A uction
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2. Page 2
Notes:
- A collaboration diagram represents a scenario, i.e. an example of usage, including data structure instances
(actor instances and objects) and a behavior instance (one trace).
- Collaboration diagrams and sequence diagrams have equivalent meaning; the layout is different
- Optionally you could include events internal to the system such as closing the logon phase and timer
events that trigger the warnings. Such events would be represented as self-loops at the system object.
Item Marks
Log in 1
Initial Price 1
Bid 1
Current Price 1
Timer Warnings 1
(b) Draw a class diagram for a high-level design model for the automated auction system. Be sure to include
boundary, control, and entity classes, as well as other classes that may be necessary to implement the required
functionality. Indicate the association, aggregation, and generalization relationships between classes, as well as the
main fields and methods. Indicate the multiplicities for each association. [25 marks]
[Marker: Radu Negulescu or Jia Le Huo]
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sen dM ail
receiveM ail
interpretM ail
A uctionC trl
au ction S tate
handleLo go nC m d
in itiateA uction
handleB idC m d
handleT im eout
T im er
d elay
reset(delay)
w akeup()
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rem oveB id der
notifyA ll
A uctio n
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co m pareB id
setC rtB id
getC rtB id
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ex pecting in itial bid active bid
n o-b id w arnin g 1 closu re w arning 1
n o-b id w arnin g 2 closu re w arning 2
1
Notes:
- Sufficient information should be included to allow walking through the scenario in part (a)
- Avoid unnecessary coupling. Most but not all students seemed confident with encapsulating functions
together with major groups of data, in true object-oriented style.
- Avoid low cohesion. The vast majority of the students have isolated the timer functionality from the rest
of the system and even seemed to naturally arrive at the Observer pattern for managing the bidder list.
3. Page 3
- Boundary and adaptor classes generally function by having a method invoked automatically on hardware
events; think of applets, servlets, mouse adaptors, etc., etc. Therefore it should not be necessary to poll for
new emails or expired delays.
Marking scheme:
Item Marks
1. Receive mail - Bid - Retrieve bidders - Send
email
4
2. Timeout - Retrieve bidders - Issue warning 3
3. Receive mail - Logon 2
Walkthroughs
4. Set initial price - Retrieve bidders - Send
email
2
5. Some control classes (per use case or merged) 2Classes
6. Some boundary classes (e.g. Email Adaptor,
Timer)
2
7. Observer pattern: managed bidder list +
notification
4
8. Isolate timer subsystem from rest of system 2
Modularity
9. Isolate bidder list management from auction
price management
1
10. Diagram structure (aggregation, multiplicities, sufficient
information in the associations and methods/services to follow the
flow of control)
3
(c) Briefly explain your main design and architectural decisions with respect to the tradeoff of maintainability
versus performance (1/2 page maximum, bulleted list form). [5 marks]
[Marker: Radu Negulescu or Jia Le Huo]
Decisions:
• Decouple application-specific functions (auction, logon) from generic functions (email, timer).
o Great gains in maintainability, reuse, perhaps use of library classes
o Performance is reduced by a constant factor
• Separate control and entity classes
o Decouples dispatching from performing the work
o Performance costs are not too high because all control is done by one object -> less construction
and destruction of objects compared to the Objectory/RUP approach
• Decouple bidder list management from individual bidder info management (observer pattern)
o Great gains in maintainability: the bidder info is very volatile, the bidder list is pretty stable
o Performance is reduced by a constant factor
• Decouple auction management from bidder management
o Great gains in maintainability: these are likely to change separately
o Performance is reduced by a constant factor
• Avoid “BidEvent” and “LogEvent” classes
o Tighter coupling between model and views through type of parameter, but this is not too bad
because they are all custom-made for this application
o Performance is improved significantly by avoiding construction and destruction of many events
• Use a “Message” class
o Performance degrades by construction and destruction of messages
o Avoids coupling most of the entity and control classes to quirks of the email subsystem
4. Page 4
• The notification message is build by AuctionCtrl but updated by Bidder Info with the current Bid
o This minimizes latency and inconsistencies between incoming offers and reported bids
o Decouples BidderInfo to ignore the time, item, and other details known to the AuctionCtrl
o Couples AuctionCrtl and the notify method of BidderLog to the Message class
Notes:
- This question is very design dependent
- Some detail decisions were deferred for lower levels of design, such as:
o Threading and synchronization of threads of the receiveMail and Timer wakeup methods
o Having a separate class for parsing and interpreting mail messages
Marking scheme:
Item Marks
1. Maintainability impact 3
2. Performance impact 2
(d) Use assertions to specify the constraints on the data maintained by the automated auction system and the data
exchanged with the bidders (inputs and outputs). Assertions stated in either natural language, mathematical logic,
or OCL are acceptable. [15 marks]
[Marker: Jia Le Huo]
Constraints on inputs (pre-conditions): none
Constraints on the stored data (invariants):
- The list of bidders contains all bidders who have logged on so far
- In the “accepting logon” state, the list of bidders can only grow
- In all the other states of AuctionCtrl, the list of bidders is the same as during the transition from “accepting
logon” to “expecting first bid”
- crtPrice is the highest price offered by a valid bid so far
- crtPrice can only grow; crtPrice > initialPrice
- crtWinner is the first bidder to bid crtPrice
Constraints on outputs, invariants, and inputs (post-conditions):
- the price and tentative winner in a notification are the ones currently stored in the Auction object
Notes:
- The use of the terms “precondition”, “postcondition” and “invariant” is pretty liberal, because it is difficult
to perfectly separate these types of constraints at the system level; hence it was not required to label the
data constraints precondition, postcondition or invariant
- The system should handle invalid logons and bids, according to the recommendation to use defensive
programming at the interface with the outside world; in the current solution this is done by ignoring them
- The invariants are very design-dependent
- The preconditions and postconditions may also vary with the design assumptions, but to a smaller extent
than the invariants
- Message time stamps might be considered as part of the input and output data
Marking scheme:
Preconditions: none (defensive programming) (3 marks)
Postconditions:
the returned price is the current price (> previous returned price) & (2 marks)
the returned tentative winner is the recorded current winner id/name (2 marks)
Invariants:
Constraints on the bidder list: unchangeable during the auction, number of bidders, etc (2 mark)
5. Page 5
current price ≥ initial price > 0 & (2 marks)
updated price > previous price & (2 marks)
current winner is the first to offer the current price (or other design assumption to resolve the ambiguity)
(2 marks)
Question 2. You are developing VeriLock, a software system for controlling the locks of the doors of a car. The
car has four doors, whose locks can be activated electronically. Each door has controls for locking and unlocking
that door. In addition, all doors can be locked or unlocked simultaneously by a remote control.
(a) Draw a use case diagram for Verilock. [5 marks]
[Marker: Albina Shapiro]
Lock All
Lock
Door
Unlock
Door
Unlock
All
<<include>> Door
Rem ote Cont rol
User
Car User
<<include>>
Notes:
- There is very little room for variation in the choice of actors and use cases according to the principles
discussed
Marking scheme:
Item Marks
Use cases 2
Actors 2
Communication relationships 1
6. Page 6
(b) Draw a statechart diagram that specifies the behavior of VeriLock. Assume that defensive programming will be
used to implement VeriLock. Use nesting and concurrency to simplify the statechart. [10 marks]
[Marker: Albina Shapiro]
Door 1
unlocked
Door 1
locked
manual lock 1
manual unlock 1
manual
unlock 1
manual
lock 1
Door 2
unlocked
Door 2
locked
manual lock 2
manual unlock 2
manual
unlock 2
manual
lock 2
Door 3
unlocked
Door 3
locked
manual lock 3
manual unlock 3
manual
unlock 3
manual
lock 3
Door 4
unlocked
Door 4
locked
manual lock 4
manual unlock 4
manual
unlock 4
manual
lock 4
remote
unlock
remote
lock
Notes:
- This was not an easy question – required some inspiration
- Many students didn’t name the transitions (which are the focus of state diagrams)
- Many students didn’t know how to deal with the defensive programming requirement: all user actions
should have a defined response at all system states
Marking scheme:
Item Marks
States 4
Transitions 2
Concurrency 2
Nesting 2
(c) Draw a class diagram for an analysis model for VeriLock. Include all classes, relationships, attributes, and
methods that are appropriate for an analysis model. [10 marks]
[Marker: Ren Wu]
7. Page 7
L ockC on trol
lockA ll()
unlockA ll()
lock(door)
unlock(door)
getS tate(door)
D oor
lockedState
lock()
unlock()
getS tate()
C ontrolP ad
1
4
B utton
pressed
press()
release()
D oorP ad
lockC m d()
unlockC m d()
R em oteP ad
lockA ll()
unlockA ll()
1 2
1 1
1
5
Notes:
- The analysis model represents the problem statement that includes elements from the problem domain
(deployment environment) and only those elements of the solution domain that will be found in all potential
solutions. Therefore your model should be a subset of the above.
- Your model does not need to include all the details above, but it should represent all the functions mentioned in
the text of the problem. Functional (use case) walkthroughs should be possible at ALL levels of abstraction,
including in the analysis models.
Marking scheme:
Item Marks
Button
Remote
Door
2
Control 1
lock/unlockAll() 1
Classes
lock/unlock() 1
Lock All 2Walkthroughs
Lock Individual 2
Multiplicities 1
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
ECSE 321 - Introduction to Software Engineering
Midterm Examination
Oct. 31, 2002, 1:05pm-2:25pm
Prof. Radu Negulescu
SAMPLE SOLUTIONS
Question 1. You are developing an automated auction system that uses e-mail to communicate with the bidders.
The bidders log on prior to an auction by sending e-mail to the system. The system communicates the starting
price of an item to all logged-on bidders. The bidders can offer a purchase price equal to or larger than the current
price of the item. The system accepts the highest offer that arrives within a predetermined delay, sets the current
price according to the accepted offer, and conveys the new price to all logged on bidders. If there are no new
offers within the predetermined delay, the system issues two warnings by e-mail to all bidders and, if there are no
further offers, the system declares the item to be sold to the bidder who made the last accepted offer.
Assume the delay for communication by e-mail is much smaller than the pre-determined delay for accepting an
offer; and, registration of items and execution of purchase transactions are outside the scope of the system.
(a) Draw a collaboration diagram for an auction scenario following the description above. [5 marks]
[Marker: Ren Wu]
aB id der
A uction System
1. L og on
3. Initial P rice
5. B id
6. C urrent P rice
8. Issue First
W arning
10. Issue S econd
W arning
12. C lose A uction
2. L og on
4. Initial P rice
7. C urrent P rice
9. Issue First
W arning
11. Issue S econd
W arning
13. C lose A uction
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Notes:
- A collaboration diagram represents a scenario, i.e. an example of usage, including data structure instances
(actor instances and objects) and a behavior instance (one trace).
- Collaboration diagrams and sequence diagrams have equivalent meaning; the layout is different
- Optionally you could include events internal to the system such as closing the logon phase and timer
events that trigger the warnings. Such events would be represented as self-loops at the system object.
Item Marks
Log in 1
Initial Price 1
Bid 1
Current Price 1
Timer Warnings 1
(b) Draw a class diagram for a high-level design model for the automated auction system. Be sure to include
boundary, control, and entity classes, as well as other classes that may be necessary to implement the required
functionality. Indicate the association, aggregation, and generalization relationships between classes, as well as the
main fields and methods. Indicate the multiplicities for each association. [25 marks]
[Marker: Radu Negulescu or Jia Le Huo]
E m ailA daptor
em ail
sen dM ail
receiveM ail
interpretM ail
A uctionC trl
au ction S tate
handleLo go nC m d
in itiateA uction
handleB idC m d
handleT im eout
T im er
d elay
reset(delay)
w akeup()
B idderLo g
ad dB idder
rem oveB id der
notifyA ll
A uctio n
crtP rice
co m pareB id
setC rtB id
getC rtB id
B id derInfo
em ailA d dr
han dleN otif
Item
initialP rice
getPrice
setP rice
crtW inn er
1
*1
*
1
sen dM ail
handleC m d
create
1 *
handleT im eo ut
reset
1 *
com pareB id
setC rtB id
create
1 1
11
M essage
tex t
addr
getT ex t
setT ex t
getA dd r
setA ddr
11
crtB id
w arning
closu re
set,get
receiveM ail
w akeu p
getC rtB id
O n e of: accepting logons
ex pecting in itial bid active bid
n o-b id w arnin g 1 closu re w arning 1
n o-b id w arnin g 2 closu re w arning 2
1
Notes:
- Sufficient information should be included to allow walking through the scenario in part (a)
- Avoid unnecessary coupling. Most but not all students seemed confident with encapsulating functions
together with major groups of data, in true object-oriented style.
- Avoid low cohesion. The vast majority of the students have isolated the timer functionality from the rest
of the system and even seemed to naturally arrive at the Observer pattern for managing the bidder list.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)