On the expected number of failures detected by subdomain testing and random testing

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 109-119

  Chen, Tsong Yueh ^a   Yu, Yuen Tak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Partition testing; Random testing; Software testing; Subdomain testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000714233     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.485221     Document Type: Article

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