• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권2_2호
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• pp.247-255
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• 2022

Robot Process Automation (RPA) is a computer technology called Robotic Process Automation, a form of business process automation based on the concept of software robots or artificial intelligence (AI) walkers. In general, in traditional workflow automation tools, software developers design software that creates a set of actions to automate tasks and interfaces for the back-end systems using internal APIs or dedicated script languages. However, in RPA software, automation can be implemented by configuring an operating processor as if the general user is directly performing the task of the application. In other words, it can be said that it is a suitable development method for automating simply repetitive tasks rather than developing specific programs in which all necessary functions are implemented, as in general software development. Thus, this is more appropriate for configuring and automating RPA software in traditional manufacturing companies that are not easy to develop and apply smart factories or high-end AI software. Therefore, this research aims to analyze the requirements required at the actual manufacturing companies, focusing on the manufacturer's case in Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, called SinceWin Co., Ltd., and to examine the possibility of RPA software in the manufacturing companies by implementing actual RPA software that supports office automation. Through the research, it was confirmed that the actually implemented RPA software met the requirements of the company and helped manufacturer practice significantly by automating the parts that were worked error-prone and manually periodically.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2000

기업의 공장자동화는 가장 중요한 경쟁력 화보 수단이 되고 있으며 생산자동화에서 품질은 소프트웨어의 기술적 품질에 지대한 영향을 받게 되었다. 따라서, 공장자동화 시스템의 품질 향상을 위해 자동화 소프트웨어에 대한 품질평가의 필요성이 대두되었다. 본 연구에서는 공장자동화용 소프트웨어에 대한 품질평가 체계와 평가 프로세스를 확립하고 평가 과정에서 활용되는 메트릭을 개발하였다. 또한, 이를 바탕으로 품질평가 자동화 도구를 설계·구현함으로써 공장자동화 산업의 핵심이 되고 있는 자동화 소프트웨어의 품질 향상을 지원할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.101-116
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• 2020

This study attempts to derive critical success factors and prioritize activities for implementing the automation of software test. Software testing proceeds in five steps of test plan, test case design, test scripting & test environment setup, test execution & evaluation, and test closure. From the literature, twenty influence factors in the five steps were identified. Focus Group Interviews with ten experts in software testing selected fourteen factors on the basis of importance and feasibility. Some factors were further divided to clarify their meanings and the number of influence factors finally became twenty one. A survey on the influence factors was conducted with 75 IT professionals. An importance-feasibility analysis was applied to the survey responses and classified the influence factors into four groups of essential factors, critical factors, low priority factors, and minimal factors. Essential factors include objectives for test automation, strategies for test automation, test automation training, test automation education, setting up test automation environment, setting up test environment, test automation tool selection. Critical factors include management's continued support, management's continued interest, role of automation engineers, and skills of automation engineers. This result suggests that a lot of efforts should be put into SW test plan for the successful SW test automation and SW automation should proceed in consideration with the priorities and resource consumption.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1477-1478
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• 2004

Science the change of development methods and environment of the software is rapidly kept going in industry, previous manual test methods will not be able to guarantee the quality of software. Therefore the software test automation tools is being developed actively. And many of the tools which is reliable is applied and used in domestic organizations. Indirect test techniques currently are used For the improvement of the software quality, such as formal specification and design, structural programming. And also the various do direct test techniques are used to the measurement of software quality through the fault detection and modification, such as black box, which box and test automation tools. In this survey, the software test automation tools which predicate and access the software quality at the software development phase for the improvement of the software quality should be introduced.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.38-44
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• 2017

Increased use of software and complexity of software functions, as well as shortened software quality evaluation periods, have increased the importance and necessity for automation of software testing. Automating software testing by using machine learning not only minimizes errors in manual testing, but also allows a speedier evaluation. Research on machine learning in automated software testing has so far focused on solving special problems with algorithms, leading to difficulties for the software developers and testers, in applying machine learning to software testing automation. This paper, proposes a new machine learning framework for software testing automation through related studies. To maximize the performance of software testing, we analyzed and categorized the machine learning algorithms applicable to each software test phase, including the diverse data that can be used in the algorithms. We believe that our framework allows software developers or testers to choose a machine learning algorithm suitable for their purpose.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2005

소프트웨어 테스팅 도구를 이용하여 테스팅 프로세스의 전체 또는 일부를 자동처리 함으로써 테스팅 시간의 단축과 비용을 줄일 수 있다. 현재 상용화된 테스팅 자동화 도구들은 상호 호환성을 고려하지 않고 개발되었기 때문에 특히, 테스트 설계 단계에서 생성되는 테스트 케이스(테스트 프로시저, 테스트 데이터 및 테스트 수행 결과의 예측 등)의 정보 공유와 재사용이 불가능하다. 본 논문에서는 테스트 케이스의 정보 공유와 재사용을 위하여 테스팅 자동화 도구들의 통합화 대신에 테스팅 수행과정에서 생성된 테스트 케이스 정보를 다른 테스팅 도구들에서도 접근, 공유할 수 있는 테스팅 자동화 프레임워크를 제안하였다. 제안한 통합 환경 테스팅 자동화 프레임워크의 유효성과 효과성, 그리고 시스템 성능과 테스트 케이스의 재사용성을 입증하기 위하여 기존 3개의 테스팅 도구들을 테스트 시나리오에 따라 실험하였다. 실험한 결과 통합 환경 테스팅 자동화 프레임워크 상에서 테스트 케이스의 재사용을 통해 테스팅 시간의 단축과 비용을 감소시킬 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.249-259
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• 2022

Project management and deployment has gone through a long journey from traditional and agile to continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous monitoring. Software industry benefited with the latest buzzword in the development process, DevOps that not only escalates software productivity but at the same time enhances software quality. But the implementation and assessment of DevOps practices is expository as there are no guidelines to assess and improvise DevOps application in software industries. Hence, there was a need to develop a hybrid model to assist software practitioners in DevOps implementation. The intention behind this paper is to implement the already proposed DevOps hybrid model using suggested tool chains including Jenkins, Selenium, GitLab, Ansible and Nagios automation tools through Jenkins project management environment and plugins. To achieve this implementation objective, a java application is developed with a web-based graphical interface. Further, in this paper, different challenges and benefits of Jenkins implementation shall also be outlined. The paper also presents the effectiveness of DevOps based Model implementation in software organizations. The impact of considering other automation tools and models can also be considered as a part of further research.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 A
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• pp.303-305
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• 1999

This paper introduces the MMI software for Central Control System in the Distribution Automation System. It provides remote monitoring and real-time control of distribution through the use of remote terminal units(RTUs) graphically. Our MMI software for distribution automation displays a circuit operating map based on the distribution automation database, and overlays it with outage information from the feeder Automation software.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.155-170
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• 2018

This study examines a data-driven approach for software test automation at an online shopping site. Online shopping sites typically change prices dynamically, offer various discounts or coupons, and provide diverse delivery and payment options such as electronic fund transfer, credit cards, mobile payments (KakaoPay, NaverPay, SyrupPay, ApplePay, SamsungPay, etc.) and so on. As a result, they have to test numerous combinations of possible customer choices continuously and repetitively. The total number of test cases is almost 584 billion. This requires somehow automation of tests in settling payments. However, the record playback approach has difficulties in maintaining automation scripts due to frequent changes and complicated component identification. In contrast, the data-driven approach minimizes changes in scripts and component identification. This study shows that the data-driven approach to test automation is more effective than the traditional record playback method. In 2014 before the test automation, the monthly average defects were 5.6 during the test and 12.5 during operation. In 2015 after the test automation, the monthly average defects were 9.4 during the test and 2.8 during operation. The comparison of live defects and detected errors during the test shows statistically significant differences before and after introducing the test automation using the data-driven approach.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.100-108
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• 2009

Designing communication architecture for substation automation is a challenging and subtle task for visualizing substations in the digital world under the umbrella of IEC61850. Communication paradigms for substation automation are of critical importance because of two reasons; the communication arena is changing daily and opts for convenience and simple deployment at a lower migration cost and interoperability is one of the core constrains of IEC61850 for substation automation. This paper presents an analysis and outline of the crucial need for the deployment of Gigabit Ethernet in substations and also presents suggestions on how Ethernet technology can help in substation automation. Ethernet is one of the most pervasive communication technologies available and can provide a long term solution in the changing arena of communication. We have performed simulations in NS-2 to prove that our suggested communication paradigm is optimal in various regards with consideration of the constraints imposed by IEC61850.