Automatic Generation of Floating-Point Test Data

  • Authors:
  • W. Miller;D. L. Spooner

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

For numerical programs, or more generally for programs with floating-point data, it may be that large savings of time and storage are made possible by using numerical maximization methods instead of symbolic execution to generate test data. Two examples, a matrix factorization subroutine and a sorting method, illustrate the types of data generation problems that can be successfully treated with such maximization techniques.