Testability, fault size and the domain-to-range ratio: An eternal triangle

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 2000 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 168-172

  Woodward, Martin R ^a   Al Khanjari, Zuhoor A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Controllability; Domain to range ratio; Fault size; Observability; Testability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; SEMANTICS; TESTING;

DOMAIN-TO-RANGE RATIO (DRR);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0034592888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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