
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES
Test adequacy: The notion of test
adequacy, which we sometimes refer to as
test completeness, is as ancient as software
testing. While referring to the 1963
publication of Miller and Maloney [329],
Page and Balkovich write, “The goal of this
type of testing is to consider conditions
such that every path will be traversed at
least once.” [383]. Obviously, Page and
Balkovich were recommending a test
completeness criterion, that of complete
path coverage. Realizing the possibility of
an infinite number of paths in the
presence of loops, they further write,
“Loops may be tested in two ways,
depending on whether the number of ...