On the effectiveness of test case allocation schemes in partition testing

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 719-726

  Chan, F T ^a   Chen, T Y ^b   Tse, T H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Effectiveness of testing; Partition testing; Subdomain testing

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

PARTITION TESTING; TEST CASE ALLOCATION SCHEMES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0031245042     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0950-5849(97)00021-9     Document Type: Article

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