A Comparison of Some Structural Testing Strategies

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 868-874

  Ntafos, Simeon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Data flow; program testing; structural testing

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING - DATA STRUCTURES;

DATA FLOW ORIENTED PROGRAM TESTING; LINEAR CODE SEQUENCE AND JUMP (LCSAJ); PROGRAM'S STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL TESTING; STRUCTURED PATH TESTING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0024032819     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.6165     Document Type: Article

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