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  title info:
    title: Adaptive random data generation for computer solfware testing
  name:
    name part: Lundstrom, Stephen Frank.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Hobbs, Arthur M.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Lively, William
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Simmons, Dick B.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1977
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 274 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
  abstract: Although proof of correctness techniques are intellectually acceptable for validation of computer software, they are often not practical. Therefore, program testing techniques are important methods for gaining confidence in the design of a program. Program testing has limitations also, especially since only a very few of the possible combinations of input data values can be used for testing. However, judicious choice of the test data can significantly increase the impact of the testing process. Computer assisted choice of test data using test data generators may become a practical technique, especially once the importance of "unbiased" test data is recognized. Here, a complete software testing system that was used to evaluate various random test data generators is described. An important goal of each of the data generators is to choose data values that are unbiased by any possible program errors or by the programmer. The data values chosen by the generators are based on knowledge of the specifications, not on "inspection" of the program being tested. Control flow and range of variable monitors are automatically inserted in the program to be tested and are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the test procedures. The information gathered from the monitors is used by three of the four test data generators to attempt to reduce the typical inefficiency of random data generators..
  note: by Stephen Frank Lundstrom.
  note: "Major subject: Computing Science."
  note: Vita.
  note: Texas A & M University
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 266-273).
  subject:
    topic: Computer programs
    topic: Testing
  subject:
    topic: Random number generators
  subject:
    topic: Computing Science
  subject:
    topic: Computer programs
    topic: Testing
  subject:
    topic: Random number generators
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-363454
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 771115
    record change date: 20220104090225.0
    record identifier: in00000359879
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng