On the statistical properties of testing effectiveness measures

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 591-601

  Chen, Tsong Yueh ^a   Kuo, Fei Ching ^a   Merkel, Robert ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive random testing; Quality measurement; Random testing; Software testing; Testing effectiveness metric

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; GEOMETRY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ADAPTIVE RANDOM TESTING; QUALITY MEASUREMENT; RANDOM TESTING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING EFFECTIVENESS METRIC;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33646021348     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2005.05.029     Document Type: Article

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