• DocumentCode
    2981819
  • Title

    Measuring the effectiveness of a test case

  • Author

    Huang, J.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Houston Univ., TX, USA
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    26-28 Mar 1998
  • Firstpage
    157
  • Lastpage
    159
  • Abstract
    This work is concerned with the effectiveness of test cases used in program testing. It is well known that no matter which test-case selection method is used in program testing, some programming errors can still escape detection because the program may produce fortuitously correct results. One reason why a program may produce a fortuitously correct result is that it contains expressions of the form exp1 op exp2, and the test case used causes exp1 to assume a special value such that exp1 op exp2=exp1 regardless of the value of exp2 . In that event, if there is an error in exp2, it will never be reflected in the test result
  • Keywords
    program debugging; program testing; program testing; programming errors; test case effectiveness measurement; test-case selection method; Application software; Automatic testing; Computer aided software engineering; Computer errors; Computer languages; Computer science; Error correction; Hardware; Instruments; Process control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Application-Specific Software Engineering Technology, 1998. ASSET-98. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Richardson, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-8582-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASSET.1998.688251
  • Filename
    688251
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2981819