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.

Illustration shows passengers boarding an international flight and having their faces matched to previously taken photos before passing through the gate.

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

2026 Time and Frequency Seminar

Tue, Jul 21 - Thu, Jul 23 2026

NIST Time and Frequency Division's annual seminar covers precision clocks and oscillators, atomic frequency standards

Projects and Programs

Combinatorial Testing

Ongoing

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

The project team develops tools for testing computer forensic software, including test criteria and test sets. ITL also maintains the National Software Reference Library – a vast archive of published software applications that is an important resource for both criminal investigators and historians...

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...

Face Technology Evaluations - FRTE/FATE

Ongoing

To bring clarity to our testing scope and goals, what was formerly known as FRVT has been rebranded and split into FRTE (Face Recognition Technology Evaluation) and FATE (Face Analysis Technology Evaluation). Tracks that involve the processing and analysis of images will run under the FATE activity...

Publications

Ensuring Reliability through Combinatorial Sequence Coverage

June 9, 2025

Author(s)

M S Raunak, David Kuhn, Raghu Kacker

Errors in software and hardware systems do not always result from only a single set of input values. Instead a series of input values or events often lead to...

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...