Comparison of program testing strategies
Elaine J. Weyuker, Stewart N. Weiss, Dick Hamlet · 1991
A person testing a program has many methods to choose from, but little solid information about how these methods compare.Where analytic comparisons do exist, their significance is often in doubt.In this paper we examine various comparisons that have been used or proposed for test data selection and adequacy criteria.We characterize them by type and identify their strengths and weaknesses.We examine useful properties of comparisons and study the relationship between analytical and probabilistic comparisons.We find that analytical comparisons provide information of limited value, and that probabilistic comparisons overcome some of these limitations.