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references p-r
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programming without errors
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requirement specification
Topic:
good requirement specifications
Topic:
incremental testing
Group:
program design
Topic:
test data selection
Group:
testing

Reference

Poston, R.M., Bruen, M.W., "Counting down to zero software failures", IEEE Software, 4, 2?, May 1987, pp. 54-61. Google

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54 ;;Quote: real-time program of 27 KLOCs with two customer-reported failures in first full year of continuous operation
54 ;;Quote: near zero software failures by testable requirements, testable software, designing tests before coding, design and code reviews
57 ;;Quote: requirements necessary for good design and tests
57 ;;Quote: good requirements are testable, unambiguous, unique, and use visible inputs and outputs
57 ;;Quote: a good design is made of building blocks which are separately testable
57 ;;Quote: tests should exercise all requirements for input values which are likely to cause failure; e.g., boundary conditions
58 ;;Quote: requirements: standard format, checklist, models, avoid paragraphs, user's vocabulary from a data and function dictionary
58+ ;;Quote: probable errors by testing boundaries + - one, normal, abnormal, and troublesome
58 ;;Quote: create tests before coding so that programmers will design out the most-probable errors
59 ;;Quote: 1509 pages of program design for 700 pages of test plans, 25k of FORTRAN and assembly code, 25k of comments
60 ;;Quote: independent testing found a bug only after severely straining the system
61 ;;Quote: after continuous operation of software at nine additional sites, 11 failures were reported


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