What is software testing? And why is it so hard?

IEEE Software

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 70-79

  Whittaker, James A ^a,b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

PROGRAM TESTING THEORY;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033924669     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/52.819971     Document Type: Article

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