Advances in Computers

Preface

This volume of Advances in Computers is the 93rd in this series. This series, which has been continuously published since 1960, presents in each volume four to seven chapters describing new developments in software, hardware, or uses of computers.

Even though software has been around for a number of decades, its quality continues to elude computer engineers and scientists alike. This is largely due to the multi-faceted nature of software quality. Consider, for example, web applications that have become pervasive only in the last two decades. They have needed new techniques to assess their quality because they involve dynamic code creation and interpretation. Moreover, as software has become larger in size, its quality assurance imposes ...