Skip to Main Content
Foundations of Software Testing: Fundamental Algorithms and Techniques
book

Foundations of Software Testing: Fundamental Algorithms and Techniques

by Aditya P. Mathur
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
709 pages
20h 23m
English
Pearson India
Content preview from Foundations of Software Testing: Fundamental Algorithms and Techniques
Test Adequacy Assessment
operators. Certainly, this is not true in some cases. However, this sug-
gests that one could apply the ABS and ROR operators to evaluate the
adequacy of a test set that is found to be adequate with respect to the all-
uses criterion. By doing so, a tester is likely to gain the two advantages
mentioned above.
7.14 MUTATION TESTING WITHIN BUDGET
The test-adequacy criteria provided by mutation has been found experi-
mentally to be the most powerful of all the existing test-adequacy crite-
ria. This strength of mutation implies that given a test set adequate with
respect to mutation, it is very likely to be adequate with respect to any
other adequacy criterion as well. It also implies that if a test set has been
found adequate with ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Foundations of Software Testing (Fundamental Algorithms and Techniques) by Pearson

Foundations of Software Testing (Fundamental Algorithms and Techniques) by Pearson

Aditya P. Mathur
Fundamentals of Computer Programming and IT by Pearson

Fundamentals of Computer Programming and IT by Pearson

Ashok Namdev Kamthane, Rohit Khurana

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9788131707951