Software testing

News and Updates

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Spotlight: The Runaway Hit for Software Testing

June 30, 2023

It’s a research tool that helps test software more effectively than ever before — including the software that helps keep cars and airplanes operating safely.

NIST Publishes Review of Digital Forensic Methods

May 10, 2022

Report documents the scientific foundations of digital evidence examination and recommends ways to advance the field.

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NIST Evaluates Face Recognition Software’s Accuracy for Flight Boarding

July 13, 2021

The most accurate face recognition algorithms have demonstrated the capability to confirm airline passenger identities while making very few errors, according

Events

FORENSICS@NIST 2024

Mon, Nov 18 - Thu, Nov 21 2024

THE MAIN EVENT: NOVEMBER 18-20, 2024 Join us virtually on Monday November 18th - Wednesday November 20th, 2024 to learn

Projects and Programs

Combinatorial Testing

Ongoing

For more information regarding the Combinatorial Testing, please visit the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC)..

Face Recognition Prize Challenge 2017

Ongoing

Results From June to September 2017, NIST evaluated 41 face recognition algorithms from 16 developers. The algorithms were applied to datasets of 2D still photographs in two ways: verification of “wild” photojournalism and social media images, and identification of faces from surveillance videos

Measurement, Metrics, and Assurance

Ongoing

The Structured Software Assurance (SSA) task is investigating a methodology known as "structured assurance case models," which have been used extensively in assuring safety-critical systems and applications, for their potential application in assuring other software system qualities, such as

FRVT 1:N Identification

Ongoing

Publications

An Abstract Model for Digital Forensic Tools - A Foundation for Systematic Error Mitigation Analysis

March 15, 2024

Author(s)

Chris Hargreaves, Alexander Nelson, Eoghan Casey

As automation within digital forensic tools becomes more advanced there is a need for a systematic approach to ensure the validity, reliability, and

Provenience-based cross-verification of digital forensic artifacts applied to NTFS

February 19, 2024

Author(s)

Alexander Nelson, Sheldon Douglas

In digital forensics, file system analysis is a precursor task to event reconstruction. Often, unallocated content within a file system is content of interest

Vulnerability Test Suite Generator (VTSG) Version 3

October 13, 2023

Author(s)

Paul E. Black, William Mentzer, Elizabeth Fong, Bertrand Stivalet

The Vulnerability Test Suite Generator (VTSG) Version 3 can create vast numbers of synthetic programs with and without specific flaws or vulnerabilities. Such

SATE VI Report: Bug Injection and Collection

June 14, 2023

Author(s)

Aurelien Delaitre, Paul E. Black, Damien Cupif, Guillaume Haben, Loembe Alex-Kevin, Vadim Okun, Yann Prono, Aurelien Delaitre

The SATE VI report presents the results of a security-focused bug finding evaluation exercise carried out from 2018 to 2023 on various code bases using static