Pseudo-Exhaustive Testing for Software
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Pseudo-exhaustive testing uses the empirical observation that, for broad classes of software, a fault is likely triggered by only a few variables interacting... click to continue...
| Author: |
D. Richard Kuhn, Vadim Okum |
| Publisher: |
30th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop SEW-30 (SEW'06) |
| Issue/Date: |
April, 2006 |
Performance Testing: How to Compile, Analyze and Present Results
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What am I here to talk about?
How to compile test data; How to calculate performance timings, How to present your test results to management... click to continue...
Author: Karen N. Johnson
Publisher:
Karen N. Johnson
Issue/Date:2006/2007
Using XSLT to Assist Regression
Testing
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Regression testing is an important
software-testing technique in which the output of a program before a change was
made is compared to the output after the change in order to determine whether
the change introduced bugs... click to continue...
Author: Sal Mangano
Publisher:
XML.com
Issue/Date:Dec. 04, 2002
Model-based Software
Testing
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There is an abundance of testing styles in
the discipline of software engineering today. Over the last few decades, many of
these have come to be used and adopted by the industry as solutions to address
the increasing demand for assuring software quality... click to continue...
Author: Ibrahim K. El-Far and James A. Whittaker
Publisher:
testingresearch.com
Issue/Date:2001
Classic Testing
Mistakes
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It's easy to make mistakes when testing
software or planning a testing effort. Some mistakes are made so often, so
repeatedly, by so many different people, that they deserve the label Classic
Mistake... click to continue...
Author: Brian Marick
Publisher:
www.testing.com
Issue/Date:1997
What Is Wrong With Line
Coverage?
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Software developers and testers commonly use
line coverage because of its simplicity and availability in object code
instrumentation technology... click to continue...
Author: Steve Cornett
Publisher:
Bullseye Technology
Issue/Date:N/A
Gauging Software Readiness with
Defect Tracking
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In the competitive commercial software
market, companies feel compelled to release software the moment it is ready.
Their task is treacherous, treading the line between releasing poor-quality
software early and high-quality software late... click to continue...
Author: Steve McConnell
Publisher:
IEEE Software
Issue/Date:May/June, 1997
Beat biz rivals by
testing
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BUSINESSES SPEND HUGE amounts of time and
money developing software. But one of the dirty little secrets of the software
world is that many firms do not put nearly the same effort into testing their
applications... click to continue...
Author: Tim Fielden
Publisher:
InfoWorld
Issue/Date:September, 2000
The Impossibility of Complete Testing
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I spend a lot of time explaining simple things about software development to lawyers. One of those simple things is a lesson that we all know (or that I hope we all know) as testers–it is impossible to fully test a program... click to continue...
Author: Cem Kaner
Publisher:
Law of Software Quality Column, Software QA
magazine, www.kaner.com
Issue/Date:November, 1997
A Few Minutes'
Discussion
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A product I worked on went through a painful period after its first release. We kept finding serious bugs that caused crashes and data corruption... click to continue...
Author: Tom Van Vleck
Publisher:
multicians.org
Issue/Date:N/A
Code Coverage
Analysis
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You use coverage analysis to assure quality of your set of tests, not the quality of the actual product. You do not generally use a coverage analyzer when running your set of tests through your release candidate... click to continue...
Author: Steve Cornett
Publisher:
Bullseye Technology
Issue/Date:N/A
Step by Step Test
Design
Snippet: "Hey Joe...They just added a frambibulator to the Web site — we need some testing for that!" Testers hear this sort of thing pretty often... click to continue...
Author: Kathleen Iberle
Publisher:
STQE Magazine
Issue/Date:Vol.2, Issue 5
Resource Path Testing: A
Framework for Design of System Testing
Snippet: Unforeseen failures occur in the simultaneous use of multiple PCs connected through a local area network. Proper system testing can detect these failures before they are delivered to customers... click to continue...
Author: Yasuharu Nishi
Publisher:
American Society for Quality
Issue/Date:June, 2001
Shaking out the
Bugs
Snippet: No matter how carefully you craft your code, errors will inevitably creep in, especially on complex projects that lack systematic testing methodologies... click to continue...
Author: Michael de Bruijn
Publisher:
webtechniques.com
Issue/Date:N/A
White Box Testing
Snippet: Software bugs are a fact of life. No matter how hard we try, the reality is that even the best programmers can't write error-free code all the time... click to continue...
Author: Oliver Cole
Publisher:
Dr. Dobbs Journal
Issue/Date:March, 2000
A Strategy for Testing
C++
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Compared with a procedural language such as
C, the testing of C++ presents some novel problems. This paper discusses what
those problems are and outlines an approach to the verification of C++ code... click to continue...
Author: N/A
Publisher:
IPL, Information Processing
Ltd.
Issue/Date:N/A
Software
Inspections
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Purpose and Origin Software inspections are a
disciplined engineering practice for detecting and correcting defects in
software artifacts and preventing their leakage into field operations... click to continue...
Author: Don O'Neill
Publisher:
Carnegie-Mellon SEI Software Technology
Review
Issue/Date:1997
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