Analyzing Partition Testing Strategies

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1991, Pages 703-711

  Weyuker, Elaine J ^a   Jeng, Bingchiang ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Partition testing; random testing; software testing

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES;

FAULT DETECTION; PARTITION TESTING STRATEGIES; RANDOM TESTING; SUBDOMAIN MODIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0026188143     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.83906     Document Type: Article

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