A software quality assurance experiment

  • Authors:
  • J. P. Benson;S. H. Saib

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the software quality assurance workshop on Functional and performance issues
  • Year:
  • 1978

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Abstract

An experiment was performed to evaluate the ability of executable assertions to detect programming errors in a real time program. Errors selected from the categories of computational errors, data handling errors, and logical errors were inserted in the program. Assertions were then written which detected these errors. While computational errors were easily detected, data handling and logical errors were more difficult to locate. New types of assertions will be required to protect against these errors.