Diagnostic techniques improve reliability
Mandalay Grems, Russell Smith, W. Stadler · 1957
Diagnostic techniques, as used in this paper, are aids for testing, sampling, and spot checking a computer program. These aids are employed to obtain evidence that the program is producing satisfactory answers. This evidence promotes confidence, assurance, and trust in the results. The reliability of the computing process is improved by the diagnostic techniques. Since the reliability of calculated results depends upon many phases of computing such as problem statement, coding, data presentation, and machine operation, diagnostic techniques also are concerned with the many phases of an integrated computing system.