• DocumentCode
    2979105
  • Title

    An empirical study of the complexity of data flow testing

  • Author

    Weyuker, Elaine J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Courant Inst. of Math. Sci., New York Univ., NY, USA
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    19-21 Jul 1988
  • Firstpage
    188
  • Lastpage
    195
  • Abstract
    An empirical study to determine the cost of using a family of test data adequacy criteria based on data-flow information is described. Evidence shows that even as the program size increases, the amount of testing, expressed in terms of the number of test cases sufficient to satisfy a given criterion, remains modest. A method of predicting the number of test cases that will be needed to satisfy a given criterion for a given program is explored
  • Keywords
    program testing; complexity; data flow testing; empirical study; program size; Computer science; Contracts; Costs; Information analysis; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Software testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Testing, Verification, and Analysis, 1988., Proceedings of the Second Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Banff, Alta.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-0868-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WST.1988.5374
  • Filename
    5374