Can we measure software testing effectiveness?

Author

Weyuker, Elaine J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., New York Univ., NY, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

21-22 May 1993

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

107

Abstract

The paper examines the issues of measuring and comparing the effectiveness of testing criteria. It argues that measurement, in the usual sense, is generally not possible, but that comparison is. In particular, it argues that uniform relations that guarantee that one criterion is better at fault detection than another, according to certain types of well-understood probabilistic measures of effectiveness, are especially valuable

Keywords

program testing; software metrics; fault detection; measurement; probabilistic measures; software testing effectiveness; testing criteria; Computer science; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; NASA; Particle measurements; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software testing; System testing; Terminology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Metrics Symposium, 1993. Proceedings., First International

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3740-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/METRIC.1993.263796

Filename

263796

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3501043