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Hints on Test Data Selection: Help for the Practicing Programmer
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In many cases tests of a program that uncover simple errors are also effective in uncovering much more complex errors. This so-called coupling effect can be used to save work during the testing process.
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Toward a theory of test data selection
Goodenough, J. B., & Gerhart, S. L. (1975) · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · doi:10.1145/390016.808473 · Cited by 514
On the Automated Generation of Program Test Data
Ramamoorthy, C. V., Ho, S.-B. F., & Chen, W. T. (1976) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · doi:10.1109/tse.1976.233835 · Cited by 319
SELECT---a formal system for testing and debugging programs by symbolic execution
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The design of a prototype mutation system for program testing
Budd, T. A., Lipton, R. J., DeMillo, R. A., & Sayward, F. G. (1899) · AFIPS conference proceedings · doi:10.1109/afips.1978.195 · Cited by 92
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Using Mutation Analysis for Assessing and Comparing Testing Coverage Criteria
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Weak Mutation Testing and Completeness of Test Sets
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- DeMillo, R. A., Lipton, R. J., & Sayward, F. G.
- Venue
- Computer
- Published
- 1978-04
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 34-41
- ISSN
- 0018-9162 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2049695835
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- 2,081
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 27.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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