On comparisons of random, partition, and proportional partition testing

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 949-960

  Ntafos, Simeon C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Partition testing; Program testing; Proportional partition testing; Random testing

Indexed keywords

PROPORTIONAL PARTITION TESTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035481250     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.962563     Document Type: Article

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