Theoretical comparison of testing methods
TAV3 Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT '89 third symposium on Software testing, analysis, and verification
A Theory of Fault-Based Testing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Effective C++: 50 specific ways to improve your programs and designs
Effective C++: 50 specific ways to improve your programs and designs
Investigations of the software testing coupling effect
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Dynamic impact analysis: a cost-effective technique to enforce error-propagation
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An experimental evaluation of selective mutation
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An experimental evaluation of simple methods for seeding program errors
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Predicting Where Faults Can Hide from Testing
IEEE Software
An Experimental Determination of Sufficient Mutation Operators
An Experimental Determination of Sufficient Mutation Operators
An experimental determination of sufficient mutant operators
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Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
An empirical, path-oriented approach to software analysis and testing
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TOOLS'10 Proceedings of the 48th international conference on Objects, models, components, patterns
An empirical study on the usage of testability information to fault localization in software
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A multiple-population genetic algorithm for branch coverage test data generation
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H-fuzzing: a new heuristic method for fuzzing data generation
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Fault links: exploring the relationship between module and fault types
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Software model checking: searching for computations in the abstract or the concrete
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ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Diversity oriented test data generation using metaheuristic search techniques
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Journal of Systems and Software
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Program faults are artifacts that are widely studied, but there are many aspects of faults that we still do not understand. In addition to the simple fact that one important goal during testing is to cause failures and thereby detect faults, a full understanding of the characteristics of faults is crucial to several research areas in testing. These include fault-based testing, testability, mutation testing, and the comparative evaluation of testing strategies. In this workshop paper, we explore the fundamental nature of faults by looking at the differences between a syntactic and semantic characterization of faults. We offer definitions of these characteristics and explore the differentiation. Specifically, we discuss the concept of "size" of program faults --- the measurement of size provides interesting and useful distinctions between the syntactic and semantic characterization of faults. We use the fault size observations to make several predictions about testing and present preliminary data that supports this model. We also use the model to offer explanations about several questions that have intrigued testing researchers.