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Inspection and Test Process Integration Based on Explicit Test Prioritization Strategies
Today's software quality assurance techniques are often applied in isolation.
Consequently, synergies resulting from systematically integrating different
quality assurance activities are often not exploited. Such combinations promise
benefits, such as a reduction in quality assurance effort or higher defect
detection rates. The integration of inspection and testing, for instance, can
be used to guide testing activities. For example, testing activities can be
focused on defect-prone parts based upon inspection results. Existing
approaches for predicting defect-prone parts do not make systematic use of the
results from inspections. This article gives an overview of an integrated
inspection and testing approach, and presents a preliminary case study aiming
at verifying a study design for evaluating the approach. First results from
this preliminary case study indicate that synergies resulting from the
integration of inspection and testing might exist, and show a trend that
testing activities could be guided based on inspection results.Comment: 12 pages. The final publication is available at
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-27213-4_1
Evaluating the Potential of a Large-Scale Polysemy Network as a Model of Plausible Semantic Shifts
We present a very large network of crosslinguistic
polysemies, and compare the notion of semantic
relatedness it encodes to the catalogue of semantic shifts
maintained by the Russian Academy of Sciences. We
separately evaluate all types of semantic shifts featured in
the catalogue, including shifts occurring during semantic
evolution, during borrowing, and during morphological
derivation. The comparison shows that over one third of
the attested semantic shifts take place between close neighbors
in the network. This can be considered strong evidence
for the usefulness of polysemy networks in modelling most
types of lexical change, making them a valuable resource
e.g. for semantic reconstruction or future automatization
of cognate detection. We also show that the semantic
shifts which occur during morphological derivation form a
divergent class, and might need to be modelled separately