Proportional sampling strategy: Guidelines for software testing practitioners

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 775-782

  Chan, F T ^a   Chen, T Y ^b   Mak, I K ^b   Yu, Y T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Partition testing; Random testing; Selection of test data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA PROCESSING; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

PARTITION TESTING; PROPORTIONAL SAMPLING STRATEGY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0030383546     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(96)01103-2     Document Type: Article

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