Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a technique widely used in the study of the reliability of industrial systems and to quantify risks associated with potentially hazardous systems. Most of the studies carried out are related to how to construct a fault tree and how to carry out qualitative and...

Software testing is usually a very costly and time‐consuming phase in software development. As most software systems are modular, it is of great importance for the management to allocate the limited testing‐time among the software modules in an optimal way so that the highest quality and...