A program testing assistant for BASIC-PLUS
Mee-Yee Chan, Siu-Yuen Yam · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 1984
A programmer often writes and tests programs in a bottom-up manner, producing code fragment by fragment and testing each fragment on a few examples to convince himself that the program works so far. These intermediate tests are typically lost without full utilization. The objective of this project is to create a kind of information retrieval system for test cases to remedy this situation. The "program testing assistant" described herein is intended to aid BASIC-PLUS programmers during incremental program development. As in the production of any piece of software tool, issues of ease of use and user-friendliness are of main concern in our testing assistant, along with software engineering considerations such as maintainability and reliability.