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Hints on Test Data Selection: Help for the Practicing Programmer

Richard A. DeMillo, R.J. Lipton, Frederick Sayward

Computer · 1978 · 2.1K citations · 8 references

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In many cases tests of a program that uncover simple errors are also effective in uncovering much more complex errors. This so-called coupling effect can be used to save work during the testing process.

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Toward a theory of test data selection

John B. Goodenough, Susan L. Gerhart · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1975 · 520 citations

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On the Automated Generation of Program Test Data

C. V. Ramamoorthy, Szu-Hsuan Ho, Wenyan Chen · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1976 · 318 citations

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SELECT---a formal system for testing and debugging programs by symbolic execution

Robert S. Boyer, B. Elspas, Karl Levitt · 1975 · 164 citations

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Toward a theory of test data selection

John B. Goodenough, Susan L. Gerhart · 1975 · 92 citations

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Social processes and proofs of theorems and programs

Richard A. DeMillo, Richard J. Lipton, Alan J. Perlis · 1977 · 63 citations · Full text

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