3 Analytical Techniques
No product of human intellect comes out right the first time. We rewrite sentences, rip out knitting stitches, replant gardens, remodel houses, and repair bridges. Why should software be any different?
—Ruth Wiener
This third chapter of the Advanced Level Syllabus – Technical Test Analyst is concerned with analytical techniques (which includes both static analysis and dynamic analysis). This chapter contains three sections:
1. Introduction
2. Static Analysis
3. Dynamic Analysis
3.1 Introduction
Learning objectives
Recall of content only.
In the last chapter, you saw a number of different white-box (structure-based) ways to detect defects, all of which require the tester to execute code to force failures to show themselves. ...
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