Using operational distributions to judge testing progress

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1118-1122

  Weyuker, Elaine J ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Operational distribution; Software testing; Test data adequacy; Test progress

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0038649285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/952532.952750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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