A more general sufficient condition for partition testing to be better than random testing

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 145-149

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Partition testing; Random testing; Software engineering; Software testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006505761     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0020-0190(95)00203-0     Document Type: Article

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