• DocumentCode
    3097934
  • Title

    PISCES: a tool for predicting software testability

  • Author

    Voas, Jeffrey M. ; Miller, Keith W. ; Payne, Jeffery E.

  • Author_Institution
    REST Corp., Arlington, VA, USA
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    27-29 May 1992
  • Firstpage
    297
  • Lastpage
    309
  • Abstract
    Before a program can fail, a software fault must be executed, that execution must alter the data state, and the incorrect data state must propagate to state that results directly in an incorrect output. This paper describes a tool called PISCES (developed by Reliable Software Technologies Corporation) for predicting the probability that faults in a particular program location will accomplish all three of these steps causing program failure. PISCES is a tool that is used during software verification and validation to predict a program´s testability
  • Keywords
    program testing; software quality; software reliability; software tools; PISCES; predicting software testability; software fault; software verification; tool; validation; Computer science; Educational institutions; Genetic mutations; Instruments; Software testing; Software tools; State estimation; Yield estimation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Assessment of Quality Software Development Tools, 1992., Proceedings of the Second Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    New Orleans, LA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-2620-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AQSDT.1992.205866
  • Filename
    205866