On the analysis of subdomain testing strategies

Weyuker and Jeng (1991) have investigated the conditions that affect the performance of partition testing and have compared analytically the fault-detecting ability of partition testing and random testing. Chen and Yu (1994) have generalized some of Weyuker and Jeng´s results. We extend the analysis to subdomain testing in which subdomains may overlap. We derive several results for a special case and demonstrate a technique to extend some of our results to more general cases. We believe that this technique should be very useful in further investigating the behaviour of subdomain testing