Special Feature Program Testing: Art Meets Theory*

  • Authors:
  • E. F. Miller

  • Affiliations:
  • Software Research Associates

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

The problems of providing quality assurance for computer software have received a good deal of attention from the computing community. Such areas as program proving, automatic programming, structured programming, and hierarchical design/development methodologies have all experienced significant growth-largely as a result of the increased attention focussed on them. Program testing, on the other hand, has not enjoyed the same level of intensive investigation, even though it has a number of technical and intuitive appeals: