REVIEW PAPER
MODELLING THE SOFTWARE TESTING PROCESS
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Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna im. Jarosława Dąbrowskiego w Warszawie
Publication date: 2014-12-05
SBN 2014;6(2): 359-375
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
An approach to formal modelling the program testing process is proposed
in the paper. Considerations are based on some program reliability-growth model that
is constructed for assumed scheme of the program testing process. In this model the
program under the testing is characterized by means of so-called characteristic matrix
and the program testing process is determined by means of so-called testing strategy. The
formula for determining the mean value of the predicted number of errors encountered
during the program testing is obtained. This formula can be used if the characteristic
matrix and the testing strategy are known. Formulae for evaluating this value when the
program characteristic matrix is not known are also proposed in the paper.
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| ISSN: | 2082-2677 |
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