Software defect prediction and quality assurance are critical fields in modern software engineering that focus on identifying error-prone components early in the development cycle. By utilising ...

“When it comes to software quality and reliability, prevention is always better than cure.” So said Professor Roberto V. Zicari, editor of data management resource portal ODBMS.org and professor of ...

Today's systematic and more subtle random defects are not only decreasing yields, but are also increasing the number of test escapes, or defective parts per million (DPPM) shipped out. One of the ...

Semiconductor companies have come to rely on delay testing to attain high defect coverage of manufactured digital ICs. Delay testing uses TD (transition delay) patterns created by ATPG (automatic test ...

The approach toward software testing has drastically changed over the years. It has changed from manual testing to automation frameworks and now to AI-based testing. It isn’t just about increasing ...

Physical defects like shorts and opens may occur during any step of the fabrication process. Well-known fault models like stuck-at (SA), 1 transition (TR), 2 N-detect (ND), 3 gate-exhaustive (GE), 4 ...

A newly drafted IEEE standard will bring more consistency to defect metrics in analog/mixed (AMS) designs, a long-overdue step that has become too difficult to ignore in the costly heterogeneous ...

Software teams sometimes ship multiple releases in a single day. But speed alone doesn’t guarantee success. What truly separates high-performing DevOps teams from the rest is how well they manage ...