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On subdomains: Testing, profiles, and components

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International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis archive
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis table of contents

Portland, Oregon, United States

Pages: 71 - 76

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-266-2

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Dick Hamlet

Portland State University

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Subdomains of a program's input space are a concept around which ideas about testing can be organized. This paper considers the questions, ``What are the best subdomains for:testing to detecting failuresdefining operational profilesmeasuring component reliability?

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