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Author(s) -
Offutt Jeff
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
software testing, verification and reliability
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1689
pISSN - 0960-0833
DOI - 10.1002/stvr.1711
Subject(s) - test (biology) , computer science , function (biology) , field (mathematics) , service (business) , power (physics) , psychology , world wide web , marketing , mathematics , business , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , pure mathematics , biology
This issue contains two excellent contributions to the literature on software testing. A formal approach to automatically analyse extra-functional properties in mobile applications, by Espada, del Mar Gallardo, Salmerón, Panizo, and Merino, generates models of mobile apps based based on their UIs. These models are then used to test for extra-functional properties such as power consumption. (Recommended by Paul Strooper.) Choosing the fitness function for the job: Automated generation of test suites that detect real faults, by Salahirad, Almulla, and Gay, evaluated eight fitness functions on their ability to generate tests that found faults. (Recommended by Rob Hierons.) This is my last editorial as Editor-in-chief of STVR. I will take a brief look back to the beginning, discuss how the journal and the field has changed while I served, and talk about the current and future challenges. When I began my service in 2007, it never occurred to me that I would last so long. My predecessors, Lee White and Martin Woodward, had created the best journal for research in software testing and I was proud when they asked me to take over. STVR was good for me as a younger scientist. Indeed, 3 of my top 10 papers on Google Scholar were published in STVR. I started my tenure with very specific goals for the journal, many of which were introduced in my first editorial [1]. STVR was in great shape and poised to become even better, and Lee and I had several conversations about these goals before I became EiC.