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In the recent years, developing and using android applications has experienced a huge expansion. Due to the novelity of these applications and their environment for developers, we can find so many problems in their perfomance. At the same time as spread of developing these applications, new automatic and non-automatic methods are introduced for testing them. Usually mutation testing methods are used to evaluate new suggested software testing methods, so some rigorous and effective methods of mutation testing for android applications are needed too. Today, some primary methods are suggested for generating mutants of android applications which are not mature yet and have many defects. The goal... 

Developers have been spending a lot of time on program comprehension during software evolution. Program comprehension reduces the cost and the software development time and increases maintainability of a program. However, the lack of documentation makes this process exhausting. Source code summarization is one of the existing solutions to help developers understand a program. Source code summarization gives an opportunity for the developers to better understand the source code by spending less time. There are a lot of approaches for source code summarization. For instance, exploiting knowledge of the crowd, information retrieval, deep neural networks, or using eye tracking of developers... 

There are different classes of event-driven softwares. These softwares include Graphical user interface, web application or embedded software. In these kinds of softwares, each user’s action while using application, is known as “event”. The application responds to the action through changing behavior and then waiting for another event. Testing software is the best way for checking the quality assurance of event-driven softwares. However, there are some problems, such as lengthy event sequences, in testing these kinds of softwares. Therefore, many solutions are introduced for these problems. The goal of this report, is presenting new testing procedure for event-driven Android applications.... 

There are different classes of event-driven softwares. These softwares include Graphical user interface, web application or embedded software. In these kinds of softwares, each user's action while using application is known as "event". The application responds to the action through changing behaviour and then waiting for another event. Testing software is the best way for checking the quality assurance of event-driven softwares. However, there are some problems as cause of creating lots of event sequences in testing these kinds of softwares. Therefore, many solutions are introduced for these problems. The goal of this report, is presenting new testing procedure for event-driven web... 

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are third generation of neural networks. Similar to traditional neural networks, SNNs are comprised neurons. However, not only structure but also information processing is inspired by animal neural systems. SNNs can be called the most similar networks to animal neural systems. In such networks, the information is processed based on propagation of spike signals through the network. The type of data flow in these networks leads to being low-power when they are implemented on hardware. Therefore,there has been a upward trend in hardware implementation of them, like their FPGA implementations, for applications such as Big Data and Machine Learning. In this thesis,...